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Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared
to-morrow.
He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared
to-morrow.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
'Tis very certain the desire of life
Prolongs it.
'Tis very certain the desire of life
Prolongs it.
What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what
is not known.
What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what
is not known.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
