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How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

      — The Merchant of Venice, Act V Scene 1

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Henry V
[III, 7]

Lewis the Dauphin

1660

And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for
Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and the dull
elements of earth and water never appear in him, but
only in Patient stillness while his rider mounts
him: he is indeed a horse; and all other jades you
may call beasts.

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