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and of late called them time-pleasers,
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flatterers, foes to nobleness.
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Why, this was known before.
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You show too much of that for which the people stir.
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If you will pass to where you are bound,
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you must inquire your way with a gentler spirit.
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- Let's be calm. - The people are abused, set on.
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This was my speech, and I'll speak it again.
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- Not now, not now. - Not in this heat, sir.
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My nobler friends, I crave their pardons.
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For the mutable, rank-scented many,
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let them regard me as I do not flatter,