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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.
When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
Marry, this is the short and the long of it.
Marry, this is the short and the long of it.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
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Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.