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Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would
perish.
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would
perish.
The mind flies back with a grand recoil
From debts not due till to-morrow.
The mind flies back with a grand recoil
From debts not due till to-morrow.
To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.
To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.
When things are at the worst they sometimes mend.
When things are at the worst they sometimes mend.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
To a brave man every soil is his country.
To a brave man every soil is his country.
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
The thread breakes, where it is weakest.
The thread breakes, where it is weakest.
Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
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Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
She either gives a stomach and no food--
Such are the poor, in health--or else a feast
And takes away the stomach-- such are the rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not.
