Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing.
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As if religion was intended for nothing else but to be mended.Samuel Butler
Love is a boy by poets styl'd Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
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He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made.
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Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots of ale.
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