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By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently
learnt.
That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently
learnt.
What were vices have become the fashion of the day.
What were vices have become the fashion of the day.
It is engendered in the eyes;
By gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it read more
It is engendered in the eyes;
By gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.
Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.
Covetous of another man's, prodigal of his own.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes
a fool of him.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes
a fool of him.
