Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest
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Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.John Webster
Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men.
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A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
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All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
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I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.
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