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If you like not hanging, drown yourself Take some course for your reputation.
Philip Massinger
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Philip Massinger
Age: 57 †
Born: 1583
Born: January 1
Died: 1640
Died: January 1
Dramatist
Playwright
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Salisbury
England
Philip Massinger
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Suicide
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Hanging
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And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.
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He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful
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To doubt is worse than to have lost And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
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My dancing days are past.
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It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.
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What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
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The over curious are not over wise.
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Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.
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Malice scorned, puts out itself but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
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They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
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Factions among yourselves preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction.
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