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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats.
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats.
People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life
People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life
The cat has too much spirit to have no heart
The cat has too much spirit to have no heart
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make read more
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish overcareful fathers
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How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish overcareful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care.
Their bones with industry.
For this they have engrossed and piled up
The cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold;
For this they have been thoughtful to invest
Their sons with arts and martial exercises.
Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe read more
Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got!
Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got!
