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After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.
After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.
Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.
Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.
To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
or as a fool to the correction read more
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the
snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on
what is obscure.
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on
what is obscure.
Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.
Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.
Swiftly our pleasures glide away,
Our hearts recall the distant day
With many sighs.
Swiftly our pleasures glide away,
Our hearts recall the distant day
With many sighs.
The more they drink the more they thirst.
The more they drink the more they thirst.
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like read more
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about
your fretted roofs.
