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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military read more
When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein
is he to be accounted of?
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein
is he to be accounted of?
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... read more
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am
made all things to read more
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am
made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of
that man is peace.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of
that man is peace.
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
