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... truth and shows wrinkles . Men and women are like turkeys ; because they choose to shut their own eyes , they think every one else is blind too . Lovers more especially are given to this folly- but you might as well talk to a deaf adder ...
... truth and shows wrinkles . Men and women are like turkeys ; because they choose to shut their own eyes , they think every one else is blind too . Lovers more especially are given to this folly- but you might as well talk to a deaf adder ...
Page 42
... truths . When I was rich , the world with flattering tongues proclaimed me handsome , young , and good : most wise - mo t virtuous : but now that I am poor , it publishes with trumpet tones , my age , my folly , and my vice . WIFE ...
... truths . When I was rich , the world with flattering tongues proclaimed me handsome , young , and good : most wise - mo t virtuous : but now that I am poor , it publishes with trumpet tones , my age , my folly , and my vice . WIFE ...
Page 43
... truth and love . Hus . I spoke not in a jesting mood : I am a ruined man , and therefore in the worldling's eyes all that is base and vile . Begone ! none but a fool would share the fortunes of a man who has no fortune left . WIFE . I ...
... truth and love . Hus . I spoke not in a jesting mood : I am a ruined man , and therefore in the worldling's eyes all that is base and vile . Begone ! none but a fool would share the fortunes of a man who has no fortune left . WIFE . I ...
Page 63
... truth . MISS CLEAVE . Smith ! What , that vulgar , pushing Tom Smith , that Captain Benson was talking of yesterday ? MRS . BOND . Or that horrid , vulgar Jack Smith , I think they called him , down in York- shire ? Gos . I should not ...
... truth . MISS CLEAVE . Smith ! What , that vulgar , pushing Tom Smith , that Captain Benson was talking of yesterday ? MRS . BOND . Or that horrid , vulgar Jack Smith , I think they called him , down in York- shire ? Gos . I should not ...
Page 64
... truth about every one I meet . I have no patience with those stupid people , who contenting themselves with the saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives , never enquire into the concerns of their ...
... truth about every one I meet . I have no patience with those stupid people , who contenting themselves with the saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives , never enquire into the concerns of their ...
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Page 64 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Page 35 - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them, Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 90 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune...
Page 18 - I put him into an out-house; and finding the symptoms he showed too clear to leave me any reason to doubt his madness, shot him, before he did any harm, through a little hole in the door, which I cut with my garden axe. The old rhyme says — A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be.
Page 22 - He's tall and he's straight as the poplar tree, His cheeks are as fresh as the rose ; He looks like a squire of high degree When drest in his Sunday clothes.
Page 87 - What, John, not gone yet ? I thought you were to meet the Commissioners at twelve ? " To which, by some instinct of memory, I replied without thinking, " Yes. But it has not struck yet." JOAN : " But you know it's half an hour's walk to the Guildhall. " DAUPHIN :