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Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).
Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
It takes much from the account, to which his sin doth amount.
It takes much from the account, to which his sin doth amount.
But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink,
Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.
But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink,
Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.
Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
One mouth doth nothing without another.
One mouth doth nothing without another.
There come nought out of the sacke but what was there.
There come nought out of the sacke but what was there.
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]