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Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!
To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.
To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud.
Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud.
Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
God provides for him that trusteth.
God provides for him that trusteth.
Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.
Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
