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Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.
Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Fire is next akin to smoke.
Fire is next akin to smoke.
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better
able to bear your own.
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better
able to bear your own.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of
the thing.
Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of
the thing.
What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
Short boughs, long vintage.
Short boughs, long vintage.
The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I
contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I
contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
