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This is no time for staring about.
This is no time for staring about.
Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]
Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
Flies are busiest about leane horses.
Flies are busiest about leane horses.
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in
horses is to be found the read more
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in
horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage
eagles produce a peaceful dove.
[Lat., Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis;
Est in juvenis, est in equibus patrum
Virtus; nee imbellem feroces
Progenerant aquilae columbam.]
Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson.
Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson.
You shall never want rope enough.
You shall never want rope enough.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
One of Satan's shepherdesses caught
And meant to stamp him with her master's mark.
One of Satan's shepherdesses caught
And meant to stamp him with her master's mark.
