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Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword
on me.
Here I stand the perpetrator of the crime--turn then your sword
on me.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street
Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--
She read more
Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street
Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--
She hates the smell of roses!
Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.
To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you
to eat his pears.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you
to eat his pears.
