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Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it.
Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?
But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming
back.
You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming
back.
Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has
learnt.
Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has
learnt.
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because read more
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.