It is hard to abstain from writing satire.

It is hard to abstain from writing satire.

Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as
possible.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as
possible.

A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.

A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.

Then let me quaff the foamy tide,
And through the dance meandering glide.

Then let me quaff the foamy tide,
And through the dance meandering glide.

But shepherds know
How hot the mid-day sun shall glow
From the mist of morning sky.

But shepherds know
How hot the mid-day sun shall glow
From the mist of morning sky.

Wine and women bring misery.

Wine and women bring misery.

Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.

Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.