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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

by E. Nesbit

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Much Ado About Nothing — V. 1

Treachery

Though those, that are betrayed,

Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor

Stands in worse case of woe.

Cymbeline — III. 4

Valor

The better part of valor is—discretion.

King Henry IV., Part 1st — V. 4

When Valor preys on reason,

It eats the sword it fights with.

Antony and Cleopatra — III. 2

What valor were it, when a cur doth grin

For one to thrust his band between his teeth,

When he might spurn him with his foot away?

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