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» Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

» Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

» I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

» It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

» Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

» O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!

» O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

» Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

» The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

» Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

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