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After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.
After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
No day is wholly unproductive of good.
No day is wholly unproductive of good.
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks read more
Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.