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Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.
Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.
Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.
Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone
his way, then he boasteth.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone
his way, then he boasteth.
Hold their nose to the grindstone.
Hold their nose to the grindstone.
It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.
It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
