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He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.
Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.
What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.
What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.
He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.
 A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly 
gratifying.  
 A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly 
gratifying. 
 One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters.
 [One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]  
 One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters.
 [One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]