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Preferment goes by letter and affection.
Preferment goes by letter and affection.
What's done cannot be undone.
What's done cannot be undone.
Whistle, and she'll come to you.
Whistle, and she'll come to you.
Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions.
Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions.
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.
