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“
O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
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William Shakespeare,
Measure for Measure
(1603), Act 2, sc. 2
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In that day's feats, * * * * * * He prov'd best man i' the field, and for his meed Was brow-bound with the oak.
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William Shakespeare,
Coriolanus
(c. 1607–8), Act II, scene 2, line 99
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