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This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.
This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.
How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.
How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.
Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.
Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.
What's done can't be undone.
[Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]
What's done can't be undone.
[Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]
The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.
The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.
When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.
When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
A mans discontent is his worst evill.
A mans discontent is his worst evill.
What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has
not.
What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has
not.
