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Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would
perish.
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would
perish.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy
those who are well to do.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy
those who are well to do.
Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron.
He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron.
