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You kick against the goad.
You kick against the goad.
There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.
He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.
The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.
The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.
Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the intuitions.
Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the intuitions.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
Yeeres know more then bookes.
Yeeres know more then bookes.
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.
