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To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.
To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.
Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!
Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a
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It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a
sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
God sends cold according to Cloathes.
[God sends cold according to clothes.]
God sends cold according to Cloathes.
[God sends cold according to clothes.]
Fortune favors the brave.
[Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]
Fortune favors the brave.
[Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]
Working and making a fire doth discretion require.
Working and making a fire doth discretion require.
Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
Better suffer ill, then doe ill.