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Trivial losses often prove great gains.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.
And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even
a sparing hand.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even
a sparing hand.
Falsehoods border on truths.
Falsehoods border on truths.
