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The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
Joking apart, now let us be serious.
Joking apart, now let us be serious.
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
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The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
heart, his next to escape the read more
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
In poison there is no physic.
In poison there is no physic.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he
is.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he
is.
