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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

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I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

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Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with.

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Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

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I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

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Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.

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I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.

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There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

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The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

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Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

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