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Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.
Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.
I talk of cheese, you of chalk.
I talk of cheese, you of chalk.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]
The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and
greatest punishment.
The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and
greatest punishment.
It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.
It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.
With swimming looks of speechless tenderness.
With swimming looks of speechless tenderness.
I hate ingratitude more in man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice.
I hate ingratitude more in man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice.
