Life and Literature Part 13

Who, knowing nothing, claim to know it all.

What each intends, or will intend, they know.

What in the queen's ear the king said, they know.

What never was, or is--they know it, though!

--_Plautus._

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The would-be buyer, alas! so often depreciates.

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The road to "bye and bye" leads to the town of never.

--_Spanish._

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CALAMITY.

Do not insult calamity: It is a barb'rous grossness, to lay on The weight of scorn, where heavy misery Too much already weighs men's fortunes down.

--_Shakespeare._

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I can't, does nothing.

I'll try, effects miracles.

I will, accomplishes everything.

--_Unknown._

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Among the ancient warriors it was a custom, when any one did a meritorious action, to say: "That will be a feather in his cap."

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Whom the cap fits, let him wear it.

--_Latin._

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Capacity without education is deplorable.

--_Saadi._

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As to cards and dice, I think the safest and best way is never to learn to play them, and so be incapacitated for those dangerous temptations and encroaching wasters of time.

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Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

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To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

--_Haliburton._

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Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour; and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.

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To win a cat, and lose a cow. (Consequences of litigation).

--_Persian._

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Deliberate well on what you can do but once.

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A life of caution is overpaid by the avoidance of one serious misfortune.