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Give place to your superiors.
Give place to your superiors.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle
produce more milk than our own.
Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle
produce more milk than our own.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe.
He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe.
Wise men ne'er wail their present woes.
Wise men ne'er wail their present woes.
Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang
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Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang
To step aside is human.
A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness,
Or other interesting beast of prey,
Are similes at hand read more
A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness,
Or other interesting beast of prey,
Are similes at hand for the distress
Of ladies who cannot have their own way.
