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Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the
wind, and the higher the tower read more
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the
wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.
It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
In every country dogges bite.
In every country dogges bite.
Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.
Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.
But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a read more
But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and
drained.
