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What is harder than stone?
What more soft than water?
Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it read more
What is harder than stone?
What more soft than water?
Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.
Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to
discompose their curls. Dandies.]
Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to
discompose their curls. Dandies.]
That which never has been, never is, and never will be.
That which never has been, never is, and never will be.
At lovers' perjuries,
They say Jove laughs.
At lovers' perjuries,
They say Jove laughs.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent
without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent
without hope.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing read more
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child.
A fickle and capricious woman.
A fickle and capricious woman.
Men's language is as their lives.
Men's language is as their lives.