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With but a plank between them and their fate.
With but a plank between them and their fate.
Stay a little and news will find you.
Stay a little and news will find you.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it.
Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.
I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.