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For I can raise no money by vile means.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
But men are men the best sometimes forget.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
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.
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.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.