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Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
[Lat., Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto.]
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
[Lat., Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto.]
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied read more
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment,
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to
hear it said, "That is read more
It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to
hear it said, "That is he."
He tells old wives' tales much to the point.
He tells old wives' tales much to the point.
