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But civlyzation doos git forrid
Sometimes upon a powder-cart.
But civlyzation doos git forrid
Sometimes upon a powder-cart.
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he
lacks opportunity.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he
lacks opportunity.
He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.
He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.
Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.
Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those
matters with which I am unacquainted.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those
matters with which I am unacquainted.
