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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
He assigned it to regions more than tropical.
He assigned it to regions more than tropical.
Whistle, and she'll come to you.
Whistle, and she'll come to you.
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have read more
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have died away,
And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,
Melt off, and leave the land and sea
Sleeping in bright tranquillity.
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of
indifference to me.
I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of
indifference to me.
Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.
Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.
