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Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear,
Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare.
Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear,
Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare.
To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great
profit.
To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great
profit.
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
A City that parlies is half gotten.
A City that parlies is half gotten.
You will not be a chip the richer.
You will not be a chip the richer.
I would have thee gone,
And yet no further than a wanton's bird,
Who lets it hop read more
I would have thee gone,
And yet no further than a wanton's bird,
Who lets it hop a little from her hand,
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silk thread plucks it back again.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
The cholerick man never wants woe.