When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers thenhe needn't hope to find himself again.
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Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.Robert Bolt
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The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.
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