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While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
fall.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
fall.
What's done can't be undone.
[Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]
What's done can't be undone.
[Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
To him that will, waies are not wanting.
To him that will, waies are not wanting.
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, read more
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my
only one!"
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.
The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.
