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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
For read more
She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
For which small thanks are still the market price,
Even where the article at highest rate is.
May you have love that never ends, lots of money and lots of friends. Health be yours, whatever you do read more
May you have love that never ends, lots of money and lots of friends. Health be yours, whatever you do and may God send many blessings to you.
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
[Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
[Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]
If I live to grow old, as I find I go down,
Let this be my fate in a read more
If I live to grow old, as I find I go down,
Let this be my fate in a country town;
May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,
And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.
May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,
Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,
Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.
- Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
With all thy sober charms possest,
Whose wishes never learnt to stray.
With all thy sober charms possest,
Whose wishes never learnt to stray.
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in
abundance.
[Ger., Was man in read more
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in
abundance.
[Ger., Was man in der Jugend wunscht, hat man im Alter die
Fulle.]
O, that I were where I would be,
Then would I be where I am not;
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O, that I were where I would be,
Then would I be where I am not;
For where I am I would not be,
And where I would be I can not.
