Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.

Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.

Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.

Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.

One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech.

One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech.

I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.

I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to
our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to
our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.

Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.