Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
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'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
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One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
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Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
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