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Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless,
avarice is never satisfied.
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless,
avarice is never satisfied.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
It is not permitted that we should know everything.
It is not permitted that we should know everything.
It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be
cured by baldness.
It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be
cured by baldness.
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an
injustice in itself; to expect read more
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an
injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the
unjust, is simple folly.
