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What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Get money, money still!
And then let virtue follow, if she will.
Get money, money still!
And then let virtue follow, if she will.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.
Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.
