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It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.
It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non read more
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]
She only said, My life is dreary,
He cometh not, she said;
She said I am aweary, read more
She only said, My life is dreary,
He cometh not, she said;
She said I am aweary, aweary,
Oh God, that I were dead.
He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial
halter.
He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial
halter.
To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.