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Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd.
Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd.
An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.
An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.
Nature never says one thing, and science another.
Nature never says one thing, and science another.
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him.
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The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him.
[The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.]
The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
[The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
[The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
The honied tongue hath its poison.
The honied tongue hath its poison.