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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
[There is no jollity but hath a smack of read more
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
[There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to
indulge in them; a man cannot tell his read more
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to
indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
What you don't know can't hurt you.
What you don't know can't hurt you.
At lovers' perjuries,
They say Jove laughs.
At lovers' perjuries,
They say Jove laughs.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
