“That expression, "He means well," is useless unless he does well.”
Nequam illud verbum‘st, Bene vult, nisi qui bene facit.
Trinummus, Act II, sc. 4, line 37.
Trinummus (The Three Coins)
“This was a sleight well mask'd. O, what is man,
Unless he be a Politician?”
Act I, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
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