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The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.
The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
I give not gold for mere expectations.
I give not gold for mere expectations.
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
She can change her
Mind like the wind: whatever she has said
Or done, is light to read more
She can change her
Mind like the wind: whatever she has said
Or done, is light to what she'll say or do.
No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
We take no note of time
But from its loss.
We take no note of time
But from its loss.
