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For I can raise no money by vile means.
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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
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Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
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Men’s vows are women’s traitors!
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces.
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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
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But men are men the best sometimes forget.
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.
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The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
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All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
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They do not love that do not show their love.
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The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.