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Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat.
Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat.
But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
The man that heweth over high,
Some chip falleth in his eye.
The man that heweth over high,
Some chip falleth in his eye.
Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another.
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Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another.
[Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.]
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Those, who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
For emulation hath a thousand sons
That one by one pursue.
For emulation hath a thousand sons
That one by one pursue.
