When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst,

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• The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got,
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  And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all...
• If I can catch him once upon the hip I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
  He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there...