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Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of
goods.
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of
goods.
Between the victim and the stone knife.
[Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]
Between the victim and the stone knife.
[Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]
Better to sink beneath the shock
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!
Better to sink beneath the shock
Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Preferment goes by letter and affection.
Preferment goes by letter and affection.
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to read more
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.
But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part,
which shall not be taken away from read more
But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part,
which shall not be taken away from her.
