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An old dog barks not in vain.
An old dog barks not in vain.
The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the
greater hides the less.
The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the
greater hides the less.
This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.
This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
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.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]
He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.
He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.
