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All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
No one can keep a mask on long.
No one can keep a mask on long.
Facts are stubborn things.
Facts are stubborn things.
Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot.
[To take the nuts from the fire with read more
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot.
[To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she
eagerly sought she soon tires of read more
As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she
eagerly sought she soon tires of and discards.
