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Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as
possible.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as
possible.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman
are alike.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman
are alike.
Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another.
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Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another.
[Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.]
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
He that feares death lives not.
He that feares death lives not.
He that riseth first, is first drest.
He that riseth first, is first drest.
Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.
Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.
