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No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir,
of myself, and what remains is read more
O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir,
of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part
if attacked by another, that read more
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part
if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
Care, mad to see a man sae happy,
E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.
Care, mad to see a man sae happy,
E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.
Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
