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Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.
Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already
sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb read more
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already
sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian
sea.
To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.
To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.
In a good house all is quickly ready.
In a good house all is quickly ready.
Though the power be wanting, the will deserves praise.
Though the power be wanting, the will deserves praise.
No man is a hero to his valet.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]
No man is a hero to his valet.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]
Fill the cup and fill the can,
Have a rouse before the morn;
Every minute dies a read more
Fill the cup and fill the can,
Have a rouse before the morn;
Every minute dies a man,
Every minute one is born.
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
