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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....
• This above all: to thine own self be true. -- Polonius in _Hamlet_ by William Shakespeare
• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use
  and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech....
• A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ea
  see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief....
• Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry -- Venus and Adonis, Line 145...
• ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
  In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota, the Senator, and everywhere the Donkey....
• Whilst thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head. -- William Shakespeare
• Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement. -- William Shakespeare
• I must go seek some dew-drops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
  -- William Shakespeare...