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When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
The plant often removed cannot thrive.
The plant often removed cannot thrive.
He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not.
He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not.
What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the
Christmas holyday.
Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the
Christmas holyday.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud read more
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and
our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our
virtues.
