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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
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Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
There was not a greater gourmand living.
There was not a greater gourmand living.
The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.
The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.
As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she
eagerly sought she soon tires of read more
As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she
eagerly sought she soon tires of and discards.