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When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink.
When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be read more
'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.
Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money.
Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.
The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.
Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.
Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.
