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Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty is the best policy.
Look you! I myself am nearest to myself.
Look you! I myself am nearest to myself.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason!
Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason!
Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear--
In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
That weapon of her weakness she can read more
Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear--
In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
That weapon of her weakness she can wield,
To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.
