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To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the
winter after.
He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the
winter after.
How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.
He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due
season, will in due season starve.
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due
season, will in due season starve.
Long jesting was never good.
Long jesting was never good.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.