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Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Hope is a waking dream.
Hope is a waking dream.
Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.
[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.
I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.
I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.
He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.
He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.
