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The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to
vice.
The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to
vice.
We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.
We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.
There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.
The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.
The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.
Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.
Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.
