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A novice always behaves with propriety.
A novice always behaves with propriety.
Know, prudent cautious self-control
Is wisdom's root.
Know, prudent cautious self-control
Is wisdom's root.
'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.
'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
O doul on the day that gae me an old man.
O doul on the day that gae me an old man.
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.
Speake not of a dead man at the table.
Speake not of a dead man at the table.
The abuse of cabmen in a block.
The abuse of cabmen in a block.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.