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Such pains they take to look pretty.
Such pains they take to look pretty.
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non read more
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]
A woman's general. What should we fear?
A woman's general. What should we fear?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in read more
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.
And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
