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But who alas! can love and then be wise?
But who alas! can love and then be wise?
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
Go West, young man! Go West.
Go West, young man! Go West.
Preferment goes by letter and affection.
Preferment goes by letter and affection.
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of
others.
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of
others.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.
The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him.
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The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him.
[The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.]
Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble.
Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble.
Much will always wanting be
To him who much desires.
Much will always wanting be
To him who much desires.