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Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty is the best policy.
A fickle and capricious woman.
A fickle and capricious woman.
Poverty is the mother of health.
Poverty is the mother of health.
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
The girl is the smallest portion of herself. [The girl is all
crinoline and chignon.]
The girl is the smallest portion of herself. [The girl is all
crinoline and chignon.]
For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.
For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same
mistake.
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same
mistake.
But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a read more
But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall,
Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and
drained.
Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.
Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.