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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for
another.]
We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for
another.]
He who fears his servants is less than a servant.
He who fears his servants is less than a servant.
Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak,
Against the wicked remnant of the week."
Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak,
Against the wicked remnant of the week."
Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you
a shovel.
Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you
a shovel.
Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.
Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health,
perception, and judgment.
[Lat., Quem read more
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health,
perception, and judgment.
[Lat., Quem dii diligunt,
Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]
