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Treachery oft lurks
In compliments. You have sent so many posts
Of undertakings, they outride performance;
And make me think your fair pretences aim
At some intended ill, which my prevention
Must strive to avert.

— Thomas Nabbes Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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