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How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own
proportion and standard.
It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own
proportion and standard.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Acerra always drinks till dawn.
Acerra always drinks till dawn.
Great things rush to the destruction of each other.
Great things rush to the destruction of each other.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
