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Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.
Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.
To John I owed great obligation:
But John unhandsomely thought fit
To publish it to all the read more
To John I owed great obligation:
But John unhandsomely thought fit
To publish it to all the nation;
Sure John and I are more than quit.
No day is wholly unproductive of good.
No day is wholly unproductive of good.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
An ill deede cannot bring honour.
An ill deede cannot bring honour.
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
