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The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand.
Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand.
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it
was first seasoned.
The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it
was first seasoned.
Custom is second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.]
Custom is second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.]
The mind that broods o'er guilty woes
Is like a scorpion girt by fire.
The mind that broods o'er guilty woes
Is like a scorpion girt by fire.
Prodigal of the property of others, sparing of his own.
Prodigal of the property of others, sparing of his own.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with
delight.
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with
delight.
