We thank you both; yet one but flatters us, As well appeareth by the cause you come; Namely, to appeal each other of high treason.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
The road is all sorts from a motorist’s standpoint; so be your own best friend and take it good-naturedly, for fussing will not mend it.
— from Finding the Worth While in the Southwest by Charles Francis Saunders
Mrs. Gibson answered: “Charity begins at home, and it is not likely you will befriend me, if you couldn’t befriend your own brother, fastened up there in that cage of a room!”
— from The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House by Anonymous
I can't blame you one bit for wanting to get home to talk it over."
— from Dorothy Dale: A Girl of To-Day by Margaret Penrose
“I don’t blame you one bit for being mad at me——I should think you would be.
— from The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger
The fishes that frequent the coral reefs are very handsome, both in form and coloration: silvery, rosy, scarlet, brown, and golden bodies, with sky-blue, bright yellow, rosy, or black stripes and bands, or spotted, stellated, and mottled with all the hues of the rainbow; and with jewelled eyes of scarlet, blue, yellow, or black; fins of all colors and shapes, and lips of scarlet red, blue, or silver.
— from Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others by James A. (James Alexander) Henshall
your barks I wound, No name shall, but your own, be found.
— from The Flower of the Mind by Alice Meynell
“Bromley the baker told cook, sir, that if you were going to grind your own flour, you might bake your own bread, for not a loaf would he make of it.”
— from The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn
If ye will not hear him, be instructed by your own broken friendships, your own dispelled illusions, your own fallen idols; by the heartlessness which too often lurks in the smiles of beauty, by the poison concealed in polished flatteries, by the deceitfulness hidden, beneath the warmest praises, by the demons of envy, jealousy, and pride which take from success itself its promised joys.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord
We thanke you both, yet one but flatters vs, As well appeareth by the cause you come, Namely, to appeale each other of high treason.
— from Richard II by William Shakespeare
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