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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom!
How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom!
Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.
Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.
Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.
A man's destiny is alwayes dark.
A man's destiny is alwayes dark.
