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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the
dinner.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the
dinner.
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters.
[One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]
One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters.
[One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.
Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.
He stands the shadow of a mighty name.
[Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.]
He stands the shadow of a mighty name.
[Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.]
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.
