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All jealousy must be strangled in its birth ... — William Davenant

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state. — Lemn Sissay

Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run. — William Davenant

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood. — Martin Compston

The assembled souls of all that men held wise. — William Davenant

What one cannot, another can. — William Davenant

Generous souls
Are still most subject to credulity. — William Davenant

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. — William Davenant

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language. — Blake Judd

It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused. — William Davenant

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. — William Davenant

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity. — William Davenant

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath. — William Davenant

Honor is the moral conscience of the great. — William Davenant

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. — William Davenant

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught
To be contented with the least. — William Davenant

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth. — William Davenant

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.' — Karl Kraus

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods. — George Carlin

People have to respect intellectual property. — Coco Lee

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. — William Davenant

I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons. — Harold Pinter

I'm looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging. — Victoria Lamb

Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave. — William Davenant

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence. — William Davenant

Ambition is the mind's immodesty. — William Davenant

Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
Of slight beginnings to important ends. — William Davenant

I grew up in New York where there is such a different variety of people. — Selenis Leyva

I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night. — William Kidd