“I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it!”
John Proctor
The Crucible (1953)
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Diary ot a Chambermaid

Quoted in "Rickenbacker: [an autobiography]" - Page 373 - by Eddie Rickenbacker - Air pilots, Military - 1967

As quoted in "'Nobody Does Anything Better Than Me in Baseball,' Says Roberto Clemente....Well, He's Right," by Roy Blount, Jr. (as C.R. Ways), in The New York Times Magazine (April 9, 1972), p. 42; reprinted as "Clemente's Time of Honor Has Come" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1qNhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xGwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7369%2C3839734 in The Pittsburgh Press (Tuesday, April 25, 1972), p. 31
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The Ancestress (Spoken by Bertha)
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“They ask you for facts, proofs, works, and all you can show them are transformed tears.”
The New Gods (1969)

“Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”
The Power of the Dog, Stanza 1 (1909).
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