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The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.
The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.
However exalted our position, we should still not despise the
powers of the humble.
However exalted our position, we should still not despise the
powers of the humble.
He that endures is not overcome.
He that endures is not overcome.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
Man never is, but always to be blest.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
Man never is, but always to be blest.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Whither goest thou?
[Lat., Quo vadis?]
Whither goest thou?
[Lat., Quo vadis?]
And Modesty, who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever.
And Modesty, who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.