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All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.
It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.