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There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.
There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.
Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
Know, prudent cautious self-control
Is wisdom's root.
Know, prudent cautious self-control
Is wisdom's root.
Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred
woman.
Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred
woman.
The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.
The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.
It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be
cured by baldness.
It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be
cured by baldness.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the
guilt of the act.
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the
guilt of the act.
