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A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
The act is judged of by the event.
The act is judged of by the event.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.
Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied
with his own, as a matter read more
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied
with his own, as a matter of course.
