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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
The doctors gave her over--to an ass.
The doctors gave her over--to an ass.
Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from
hour to hour.
His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from
hour to hour.
A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.
If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.
