When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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When kings the sword of justice first lay down;
They art no kings, though they posess the crown;
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.
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Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.
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