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A person like me. . . isn't even worth the tip of a toe. I can't even compare to half.

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Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.

Bind, Bold, Coward, Hands, Honesty, Power
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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Ambition, Inflamèd, Lust, Madder, Philosophy

How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on, Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up, Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.

Bees, Country, Cutting, Dear, Selfish, Spent

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Easy, Honesty, Knaves, Men, Repose

Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.

Anger, Hypocrisies, Hypocrisy, Outsides, Wiles, Women

Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

Doors, Eye, Game, Home, Spring
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