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We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when
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He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when
it is in his power to do so.
One sword keeres another in the sheath.
One sword keeres another in the sheath.
He that lives most dies most.
He that lives most dies most.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.