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Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen.
The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen.
'Tis very certain the desire of life
Prolongs it.
'Tis very certain the desire of life
Prolongs it.
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.
If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four
which I know not:
The way read more
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four
which I know not:
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock;
the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man
with a maid.
Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
Conversation makes one what he is.
Conversation makes one what he is.
Is there a man whose judgment clear
Can others teach the course to steer,
Yet runs himself read more
Is there a man whose judgment clear
Can others teach the course to steer,
Yet runs himself life's mad career,
Wild as the wave?
