I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

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  I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own

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  A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

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  Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

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  Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

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  I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

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  I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

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  Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such

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  I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

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  Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.