C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Defence

In cases of defence, ’tis best to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he seems;
So the proportions of defence are fill’d;
Which of a weak and niggardly projection
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting a little cloth.

Shakespeare.

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