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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.
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