"'Tis pride that pulls the country down."
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"Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office."
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"Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?"
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"Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?"
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"Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe."
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"Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have."
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"A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in."
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"O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies."
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"Knavery's plain face is never seen till used."
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"There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave."
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"I have sounded the very base-string of humility."
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"Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark."
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"Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee."
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"Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance."
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"Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds."
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"A poor thing, perhaps, but my own."
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"For I am nothing if not critical."
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"Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate."
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"I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours."
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"The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness."
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