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One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.
One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.
Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?
Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind.
[Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum remissio.]
Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind.
[Lat., Arcum intensio frangit, animum remissio.]
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly
gratifying.
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly
gratifying.
Never without a shilling in my purse.
Never without a shilling in my purse.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.
Most men are bad.
Most men are bad.
Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.
Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.
