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Such pains they take to look pretty.
Such pains they take to look pretty.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
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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!
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes
us.
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes
us.
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.
