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Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused or, if received, are pocketed, not read.
Philip Massinger
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Philip Massinger
Age: 57 †
Born: 1583
Born: January 1
Died: 1640
Died: January 1
Dramatist
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Salisbury
England
Philip Massinger
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Quiet night, that brings Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended dares not sleep.
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They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
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A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.
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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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If you like not hanging, drown yourself Take some course for your reputation.
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My dancing days are past.
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I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.
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Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
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