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In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you
embrace another.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you
embrace another.
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
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No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
And flow as now it flows.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
Assaile who will, the valiant attends.
Assaile who will, the valiant attends.
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
