"To be honest, as this world goes,..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
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“My endeavorsHave ever come too short of my desires.Yet filed with my abilities.”
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“'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.”
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“Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.”
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“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”
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