How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer’s days!

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's (1611), Act ii. Sc. 1..

English (original)

— Thomas Middleton

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That disease Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.

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Wilt make haste to give up thy verdict because thou wilt not lose thy dinner.

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In spite of my teeth.

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From thousands of our undone widows One may derive some wit.

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’Tis slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.

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Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes.

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