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The wind in ones face makes one wise.
The wind in ones face makes one wise.
Consider an enemy may become a friend.
Consider an enemy may become a friend.
He that seekes trouble never misses.
[He that seeks trouble never misses.]
He that seekes trouble never misses.
[He that seeks trouble never misses.]
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.
Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in read more
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
And wer't not madness then
To make the fox surveyor of the fold.
And wer't not madness then
To make the fox surveyor of the fold.
