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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.
Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
The life of man is a winter way.
The life of man is a winter way.
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
Beate the dog before the Lyon.
Beate the dog before the Lyon.
Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of read more
Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
'Tis the same with common natures,
Use 'em kindly, they rebel;
But, be rough as nutmeg-graters,
And the rogues obey you well.
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.
It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid
satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from read more
It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid
satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise
after he is dead.
