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If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.
If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
What boots it on the lineal tree to trace
Through many a branch the founders of our race.
What boots it on the lineal tree to trace
Through many a branch the founders of our race.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults.
Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?
Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
