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A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a
shirt on his back.
Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a
shirt on his back.
A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
[Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]
A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
[Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to
support the weak, and to remember read more
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to
support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus,
how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'
'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter.
[Ger., Der Mutter schenk' ich,
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I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter.
[Ger., Der Mutter schenk' ich,
Die Tochter denk' ich.]
