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Sit in your place and none can make you rise.
Sit in your place and none can make you rise.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you
to eat his pears.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you
to eat his pears.
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Providence is better then a rent.
Providence is better then a rent.
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that
which is done is that which read more
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that
which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new
thing under the sun.
