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I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
To a brave man every soil is his country.
To a brave man every soil is his country.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
A man that is warned is half armed.
A man that is warned is half armed.
