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Apollo does not always bend his bow.
Apollo does not always bend his bow.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
An undertaking beset with danger.
An undertaking beset with danger.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
heart, his next to escape the read more
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
She was one of those who by fortune's boon
Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon
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She was one of those who by fortune's boon
Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon
In her mouth, not a wooden ladle.
What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
Round, round, while thus we go round,
The best thing a man can do,
Is to make read more
Round, round, while thus we go round,
The best thing a man can do,
Is to make it at least, a merry-go-round,
By--sending the wine round too.
