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Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the
morrow may bring.
Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the
morrow may bring.
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when
it is in his power to read more
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when
it is in his power to do so.
Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.
Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
The act is judged of by the event.
The act is judged of by the event.
A live dog is better than a dead lion.
A live dog is better than a dead lion.
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from
the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon read more
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from
the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
