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Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
We are in the same boat.
We are in the same boat.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
[Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo read more
A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
[Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.]
It takes two for a kiss
Only one for a sigh,
Twain by twain we marry
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It takes two for a kiss
Only one for a sigh,
Twain by twain we marry
One by one we die.
Better your room than your company.
Better your room than your company.
No blast of air or fire of sun
Puts out the light whereby we run
With girdled read more
No blast of air or fire of sun
Puts out the light whereby we run
With girdled loins our lamplit race,
And each from each takes heart of grace
And spirit till his turn be done.
If it be honor in your wars to seem
The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,
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If it be honor in your wars to seem
The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,
You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse,
That it shall hold companionship in peace
With honour, as in war: since that to both
It stands in like request?
Ah, savage company; but in the church
With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.
Ah, savage company; but in the church
With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.
