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DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.
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Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
By John Webster
Vain ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
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Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
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With such a pity men preserve alive Pheasants and quails, when they are no fat enough to be eaten.
By John Webster