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Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Little wealth, little care.
Little wealth, little care.
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part
if attacked by another, that read more
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part
if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.
