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Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as
possible.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as
possible.
I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.
I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.
The best mirrour is an old friend.
The best mirrour is an old friend.
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.
Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.
Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
And wer't not madness then
To make the fox surveyor of the fold.
And wer't not madness then
To make the fox surveyor of the fold.
