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What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin
than Dobbin my thill-horse has read more
What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin
than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.
A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd.
A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd.
To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.
To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.
His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.
After supper walk a mile.
After supper walk a mile.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
