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Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher,
it goes ill with the pitcher.
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher,
it goes ill with the pitcher.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you
embrace another.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you
embrace another.
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the
Christmas holyday.
Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the
Christmas holyday.
When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much.
When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much.
Folly growes without watering.
Folly growes without watering.
I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.
I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.