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They will swear black is white.
They will swear black is white.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.]
There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.]
Stay a little and news will find you.
Stay a little and news will find you.
An old Physitian, and a young Lawyer.
An old Physitian, and a young Lawyer.
Of joys departed
Not to return, how painful the remembrance.
Of joys departed
Not to return, how painful the remembrance.
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of
bitterness arises to vex us in the flower read more
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of
bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
