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• Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee.
  Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment....
• Take thy correction mildly. Kiss the rod. -- William Shakespeare
• Goodnight, sweet Prince, and flights of angels take thee to thy rest. -- William Shakespeare
• Your name is great In mouths of wisest censure. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act ii, Sc.
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• Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.
  -- William Shakespeare, (The only good part of Polonius' advice to Laertes)...
• The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel
  but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new hatched, unfledged comrade....
• Lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold. -- William Shakespeare
• Whilst thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head. -- William Shakespeare
• Willst thou show the wealth of thy wit in an instant? -- William Shakespeare