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The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.
The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.
Too much of anything is bad.
Too much of anything is bad.
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like read more
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about
your fretted roofs.
All things require skill, but an appetite.
All things require skill, but an appetite.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many
superfluous things which the owner knows not of, read more
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many
superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to
the thieves.
Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
