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What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly?
The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.
What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly?
The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.
Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.
Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.
A house and a woman sute excellently.
A house and a woman sute excellently.
He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.
He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.
The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.
The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.
With winsome cruelty she refuses.
With winsome cruelty she refuses.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
[Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
[Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]
He follows his father, but with shorter strides.
He follows his father, but with shorter strides.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.