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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
[Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser read more
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
[Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.
Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.
Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a
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It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a
sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
An ill agreement is better then a good judgement.
[An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]
An ill agreement is better then a good judgement.
[An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]
