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Fain would I, but I dare not I dare, and yet I may not I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.
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If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.
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