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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
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She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
For which small thanks are still the market price,
Even where the article at highest rate is.
Nothing is achieved without toil.
Nothing is achieved without toil.
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so
will pains.
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so
will pains.
How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom!
How much of injustice and depravity is sanctioned by custom!
But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.
Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate.
Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate.
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.