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How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.
Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
We are fooles one to another.
We are fooles one to another.