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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang read more
You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
To climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first.
To climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first.
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him
at all.
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him
at all.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
