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Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he
is.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he
is.
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad,
will work out his ruin.
A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad,
will work out his ruin.
He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest
superiority.]
He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest
superiority.]
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
