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It is difficult to fly without wings.
It is difficult to fly without wings.
We are not born for ourselves alone.
We are not born for ourselves alone.
There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.
There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.
This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.
This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.
Though old and wise, yet still advise.
Though old and wise, yet still advise.
How well I feathered by nest.
How well I feathered by nest.
From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
It is peculiarly a fool's habit to discern the faults of others,
and to forget his own.
It is peculiarly a fool's habit to discern the faults of others,
and to forget his own.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.