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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

by E. Nesbit

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King Henry VIII. — II. 3

Cowards

Cowards die many times before their deaths;

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Julius Caesar — II. 2

Custom

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat

Of habit’s devil, is angel yet in this:

That to the use of actions fair and good

He likewise gives a frock, or livery,

That aptly is put on: Refrain to-night:

And that shall lend a kind of easiness

To the next abstinence: the next more easy:

For use almost can change the stamp of nature,

And either curb the devil, or throw him out

With wondrous potency.

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