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I must be cruel only to be kind.
I must be cruel only to be kind.
He did not care a button for it.
He did not care a button for it.
As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the
dinner.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the
dinner.
A good prayer is master of anothers purse.
A good prayer is master of anothers purse.
But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a read more
But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and
drained.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.