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Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.]
Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.]
Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.
Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.
Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
Dogs are fine in the field.
Dogs are fine in the field.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.