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• Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!

  Walter Raleigh

  Cheer, Giving, Abuse

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• It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.

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  Men, Vanity, Vices

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• Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

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  Ambition, Thinking, Needs

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works”

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• Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

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  Son, May, Bless

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• Love likes not the falling fruit,
  Nor the withered tree.

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  Fall, Tree, Likes

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• The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!

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  Kings, War, House

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• There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.

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  Men, Errors, Matter

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The history of the world”, p.112

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• Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

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  Men, Flattery, Praise

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works”

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• In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

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  Friendship, Feelings, Desire

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• Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

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  Witty, Love Is, Silence

  Sir Walter Raleigh, “The Silent Lover II”

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• A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.

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  War, Jealous, Men

  "A Collection of Literary Essays".

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• Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

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  Romance, Affair, Love Affair

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• The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

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  War, Law, Action

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.254

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