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Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under read more
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Let the poor man mind his tongue.
Let the poor man mind his tongue.
Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to
beasts.
Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to
beasts.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.
Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.
