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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike
the melancholy.
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike
the melancholy.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.
A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.
O doul on the day that gae me an old man.
O doul on the day that gae me an old man.
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to
those who can.
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to
those who can.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.