“According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.”
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Walter Raleigh was an English writer, explorer, soldier, and politician. He is renowned for his poetry, such as 'The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd', and his involvement in the establishment of the Roanoke Colony in North America. Raleigh served as a courtier to Elizabeth I and later became a favorite of King James I. more
“Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.”
“The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.”
“And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!”