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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
Common report is not always wrong.
Common report is not always wrong.
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into read more
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!
When things are at the worst they sometimes mend.
When things are at the worst they sometimes mend.
