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Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
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.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.
He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.
The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach.
[The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]
The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach.
[The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit than he read more
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
