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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
The honied tongue hath its poison.
The honied tongue hath its poison.
Hee that is a master must serve (another).
Hee that is a master must serve (another).
Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants.
Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants.
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.