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Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. - Matthew Prior

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. – Matthew Prior

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. – Matthew Prior

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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels. – John Selden

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Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler

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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. – Marquis De Sade

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Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. – William Shakespeare

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