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A great fortune enslaves its owner.
A great fortune enslaves its owner.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.
He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.
The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence.
The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence.
Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.
Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.
There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.
There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
