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What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin
than Dobbin my thill-horse has read more
What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin
than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a read more
But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and
drained.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one
with kindness.
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one
with kindness.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
