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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right read more
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.
A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.
This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
