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Life ain't all beer and skittles.
Life ain't all beer and skittles.
Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay read more
Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,
And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to read more
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.
Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.
No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the
dowry is too large.
It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the
dowry is too large.
The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.
The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.
