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Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.
Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
Fortune favours the bold.
Fortune favours the bold.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
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.
A house and a woman sute excellently.
A house and a woman sute excellently.
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know
your selfe.
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know
your selfe.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue,
But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue,
But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
