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A novice always behaves with propriety.
A novice always behaves with propriety.
Famed
For every branch of every science known.
Famed
For every branch of every science known.
Hope is the poore mans bread.
Hope is the poore mans bread.
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.
The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.
Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
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Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.
The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin.
[The fable of frog and the cow.]
The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin.
[The fable of frog and the cow.]
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
True praise rootes and spreedes.
True praise rootes and spreedes.