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Sit in your place and none can make you rise.
Sit in your place and none can make you rise.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.
Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.
Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
A novice always behaves with propriety.
A novice always behaves with propriety.
Dreading that climax of all earthly ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
Dreading that climax of all earthly ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
