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Many kisse the hand they wish cut off.
Many kisse the hand they wish cut off.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.
If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
