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Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.
Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is
denied we eagerly covet.
What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is
denied we eagerly covet.
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same
mistake.
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same
mistake.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
