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I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin. [Ger., Ich bin gewoht in der Munze wiederzuzahlen in der man mich bezahlt.] - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck, To the Ultramontanes Repudiate the repudiators. - William Pitt Fessenden, Presidential Canvass of 1868 And would'st thou evil for his good repay? - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XVI, l. 448), (Pope's translation) She pays him in his own coin. - Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (dialogue III)
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