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It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can
be successful without being envied read more
It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can
be successful without being envied and hated.]
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
In a retreat the lame are formost.
In a retreat the lame are formost.
Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not
till then.
Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not
till then.
The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him.
[The lion is not so fierce as they paint read more
The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him.
[The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.]
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.
He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!
