Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant and of all tame, a flatterer.
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It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be.
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Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander makes it true.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you,Seem to fly it, it will pursue.So court a mistress, she denies youLet her alone, she will court you.Say, are not women truly, thenStyled but the shadows of us men
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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