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A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).
Marry, this is the short and the long of it.
Marry, this is the short and the long of it.
A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.
A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind.
[Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum remissio.]
Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind.
[Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum remissio.]
'Tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,
For daws to peck read more
'Tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,
For daws to peck at.
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they
assume anger, and take courage from the very crime read more
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they
assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the
nut.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the
nut.