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Every bullet has its billet.
Every bullet has its billet.
Leave not a sword in the hand of an idiot.
Leave not a sword in the hand of an idiot.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Eloquence enough, but little wisdom.
Eloquence enough, but little wisdom.
