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When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of
gold?
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of
gold?
My hair is grey, but not with years.
My hair is grey, but not with years.
Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by.
Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.
The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.
Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.
Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.
Great wit to madness sure is near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Great wit to madness sure is near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.