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Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash;
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When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash;
when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak.
He makes a great row but does nothing.
He makes a great row but does nothing.
The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted.
The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted.
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of
others.
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of
others.