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The pen worse than the sword.

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Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?

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I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

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Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

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Many things happen between the cup and the lip.

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Though it rain daggers with their points downward.

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A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.

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Like the watermen that row one way and look another.

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Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.

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And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.

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Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.

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As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.

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Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.

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When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.

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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

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Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.

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The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.

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I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy.

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They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

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Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.

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A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

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They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.

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Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.

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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

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The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.

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We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.

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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

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It is most true, stilus virum arguit —our style betrays us.

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All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.

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From this it is clear how much the pen is worse than the sword.

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