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Fair words butter no parsnips.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of
the fair.
Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of
the fair.
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.
Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.
Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to
discompose their curls. Dandies.]
Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to
discompose their curls. Dandies.]
The life of man is a winter way.
The life of man is a winter way.
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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!
Consider the end.
Consider the end.
