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01c. 1595 AD

Enough 's as good as a feast.

George Chapman / quote

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02c. 1595 AD

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

George Chapman / quote

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03c. 1595 AD

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

George Chapman / quote

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04c. 1595 AD

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

George Chapman / quote

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05c. 1595 AD

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

George Chapman / quote

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06c. 1595 AD

Promise is most given when the least is said.

George Chapman / quote

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07Undated

Let no man value at little price a virtuous woman's counsel.

George Chapman / quote

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08Undated

Though all the doors are sure, and all our servants As sure bound with their sleeps; yet there is One That wakes above, whose eye no sleep can bind; He sees through doors, and darkness, and our thoughts; And, therefore, as we should avoid with fear, To think ourselves amiss before His search; So should we be as curious to shun All cause that others think not ill of us.

George Chapman / quote

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09Undated

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

George Chapman / quote

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10Undated

You men think old men are fools but old men know young men are the fools.

George Chapman / quote

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11Undated

Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs.

George Chapman / quote

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12Undated

Love is nature's second son.

George Chapman / quote

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