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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.
Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.
But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.
But in the glances of his eye
A penetrating keen and sly
Expression found its home.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet.
He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.