Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

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Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.

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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

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Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

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Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

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But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

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