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Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
Round, round, while thus we go round,
The best thing a man can do,
Is to make read more
Round, round, while thus we go round,
The best thing a man can do,
Is to make it at least, a merry-go-round,
By--sending the wine round too.
Neither cast your pearls before swine.
Neither cast your pearls before swine.
Laughter
Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.
Laughter
Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its
proverbs.
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its
proverbs.
She is kept alive on the milk of asses which she takes with her
wherever she goes.
She is kept alive on the milk of asses which she takes with her
wherever she goes.
