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I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

Approximate author period: c. 1615 AD · renaissance

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Author or tradition
Bishop Hall
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Approximate author period: c. 1615 AD · renaissance
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Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)

Quarrels · anthology attribution: Bishop Hall

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