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Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of
indifference to me.
I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of
indifference to me.
Let all live as they would die.
Let all live as they would die.
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
But thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties; give me a cigar.
But thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties; give me a cigar.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
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So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?