The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. - John Lyly

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How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,
The morne not waking til she sings.

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It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.

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That honourable estate of Matrimony, which was sanctified in Paradise, allowed of the Patriarches, hallowed of the olde Prophets, and commended of al persons.

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