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Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Everyone has his besetting sin.
Everyone has his besetting sin.
He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.
He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has
passed his life in seclusion.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has
passed his life in seclusion.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Give me the ocular proof.
Give me the ocular proof.
What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin
than Dobbin my thill-horse has read more
What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin
than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.
