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All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
He who injures one man threatens many.
He who injures one man threatens many.
He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.
He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
Dress drains our cellar dry,
And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires
And introduces hunger, read more
Dress drains our cellar dry,
And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires
And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,
Where peace and hospitality might reign.
A pearl may in a toad's head dwell,
And may be found too in an oyster shell.
A pearl may in a toad's head dwell,
And may be found too in an oyster shell.
