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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
The stern delight that warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel.
The stern delight that warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel.
I would have thee gone,
And yet no further than a wanton's bird,
Who lets it hop read more
I would have thee gone,
And yet no further than a wanton's bird,
Who lets it hop a little from her hand,
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silk thread plucks it back again.
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
Man is to man a god or a wolf.
Man is to man a god or a wolf.
It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.
It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.
Let the worst come to the worst.
Let the worst come to the worst.