"You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart."
"Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea."
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Source: Tis Pity She's a Whore' (1633) act 5, sc. 4
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