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Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]
Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.
Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.
A man of refined taste and judgment.
A man of refined taste and judgment.
A creature not too bright nor good
For human nature's daily food.
A creature not too bright nor good
For human nature's daily food.
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,
Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at read more
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,
Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has
passed his life in seclusion.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has
passed his life in seclusion.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.