I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.
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Christ himself was poor.... And as he was himself, so he informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets poor, apostles poor.
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Ambition, a proud covetousness, or a dry thirst of honour, A great torture of the mind, composed of envy, pride, and covetousness, a gallant madness, one defines it a pleasant poison.
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