The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
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Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.

Whither art thou rushing to destruction?

Whither art thou rushing to destruction?

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

A word once spoken cannot be recalled.

A word once spoken cannot be recalled.

Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.

Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart from it.

The absent partie is still faultie.

The absent partie is still faultie.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.