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If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness.
For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness.
My high-blown pride
At length broke under me, and now has left me
Weary and old with read more
My high-blown pride
At length broke under me, and now has left me
Weary and old with service.
When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink.
When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
[Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
[Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]
'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.
'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.
He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others.
[Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others.
[Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
