It takes two for a kiss
Only one for a sigh,
Twain by twain we marry
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It takes two for a kiss
Only one for a sigh,
Twain by twain we marry
One by one we die.

Ah, savage company; but in the church
With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.

Ah, savage company; but in the church
With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.

Two i's company, three i's trumpery.

Two i's company, three i's trumpery.

If it be honor in your wars to seem
The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,
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If it be honor in your wars to seem
The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,
You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse,
That it shall hold companionship in peace
With honour, as in war: since that to both
It stands in like request?

Joy is a partnership,
Grief weeps alone,
Many guests had Cana;
Gethsemane but one.

Joy is a partnership,
Grief weeps alone,
Many guests had Cana;
Gethsemane but one.

Better your room than your company.

Better your room than your company.

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune,
but it is a poor comfort after read more

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune,
but it is a poor comfort after all.

[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company
with whom you eat and drink, than to read more

[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company
with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
[Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas,
quam quid edas et bibas.]

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.