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Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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