Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the
unfortunate.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the
unfortunate.

Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?

Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?

Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street
Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--
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Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street
Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--
She hates the smell of roses!

Seeming genial, venial fault.

Seeming genial, venial fault.

And wer't not madness then
To make the fox surveyor of the fold.

And wer't not madness then
To make the fox surveyor of the fold.

The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.

The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]

There's always a shot in the locker.

There's always a shot in the locker.