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When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,
Contagious blastments are are most imminent.
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,
Contagious blastments are are most imminent.
So obliging that he ne'er obliged.
So obliging that he ne'er obliged.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.
Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.
What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.