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As if thou e'er wert angry
But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred
Can bring more to the making up of a man,
Than can be hoped from thee; thou art his creature;
And did he not, each morning, new create thee,
Thou'dst stink and be forgotten.

— Philip Massinger

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Be wise;
Soar not too high, to fall; but stoop to rise.

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Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

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Like a rough orator, that brings more truth
Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

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Out, you impostors!
Quack-salving, cheating mountebanks! Your skill
Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.

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