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Nature never says one thing, and science another.
Nature never says one thing, and science another.
Laughter
Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.
Laughter
Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.
Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the
manner of his forefathers cultivates with his read more
Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the
manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his
paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.
A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
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A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his
duty to avoid.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his
duty to avoid.
Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.
Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.
Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.
