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Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Enough is as good as a feast.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything,
doing nothing.
Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything,
doing nothing.
It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.
Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.
Many a smale maketh a grate.
Many a smale maketh a grate.
The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
But time strips our illusions of their hue,
And one by one in turn some grand mistake
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But time strips our illusions of their hue,
And one by one in turn some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like a snake.
