My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
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My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
Can make the fool of; that they made before:
In fact I must not lead the life I did do.

As fierce as hell, or fiercer still,
A woman piqued who has her will.

As fierce as hell, or fiercer still,
A woman piqued who has her will.

Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.

Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.

Let him fry in his own grease.

Let him fry in his own grease.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

In spending lies the advantage.

In spending lies the advantage.

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part
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He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part
if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]

Or wherefore trace, from what slight cause
Its source one tyrant passion draws,
Till mastering all within.

Or wherefore trace, from what slight cause
Its source one tyrant passion draws,
Till mastering all within.