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Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.
Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
Better good afarre off, then evill at hand.
Better good afarre off, then evill at hand.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
Consider the end.
Consider the end.
