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Quotations
Great honors are great burdens: but, on whom They'are cast with enuie, he doth beare two loades.
Great men greate loads must beare.
Men that will bee great must sometimes beare.
Cross References
- See Dür., I, no. 322
- Отто, no. 828
- C863 Crowns have cares
- H568 Honor and ease are seldom bedfellows
- H581 Where there is no honor there is no grief (sorrow).
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