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He is not poor who has a competency.
He is not poor who has a competency.
The more skilful the gambler, the worse the man.
The more skilful the gambler, the worse the man.
The best things in life are free.
The best things in life are free.
How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.
Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.
The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four
which I know not:
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There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four
which I know not:
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock;
the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man
with a maid.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
Much matter decocted into few words.
Much matter decocted into few words.