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I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught.

      — All's Well that Ends Well, Act II Scene 2

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KEYWORD: preferments

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Richard III
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Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)

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She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?
She may do more, sir, than denying that:
She may help you to many fair preferments,
And then deny her aiding hand therein,
And lay those honours on your high deserts.
What may she not? She may, yea, marry, may she—

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