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All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.
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A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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