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Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.
Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.
Originality provokes originality.
Originality provokes originality.
They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you
to eat his pears.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you
to eat his pears.
A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men
cannot pull out.
A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men
cannot pull out.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,
Could penetrate read more
But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,
Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire.