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

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


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



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



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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.



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