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To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.
To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.
One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same
mistake.
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same
mistake.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.
There's nothing makes me so much grieve,
As that abominable tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud eschew'd by read more
There's nothing makes me so much grieve,
As that abominable tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud eschew'd by human cattle.
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
Of a little thing a little displeaseth.
Of a little thing a little displeaseth.