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Sometimes party loyalty asks too much
Sometimes party loyalty asks too much
Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
[Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]
Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
[Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]
You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true read more
You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel.
I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
My twin and I
were wombmates
and then roommates.
Some day our bodies
will be tombmates.
(as their souls will read more
My twin and I
were wombmates
and then roommates.
Some day our bodies
will be tombmates.
(as their souls will be together
with those of their husbands in paradise).
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
[Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
[Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that read more
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it.
Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your read more
Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to read more
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.