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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
Want of pluck shows want of blood.
Want of pluck shows want of blood.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has
passed his life in seclusion.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has
passed his life in seclusion.
He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.
He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.
Leave her to Heaven,
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting read more
Leave her to Heaven,
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
