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The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.] - [Money : Proverbs] The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards? - [Fame] The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. - [Proverbs] The whole family is packed into one trap. - [Proverbs] The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires. - [Proverbs] The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own conscience no guilty man is acquitted. - [Proverbs] Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt. - [Proverbs] Their rise is one of difficulty, whose merits are impeded by poverty. - [Proverbs] There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats. - [Proverbs] There is more of bitterness than good nature in him. - [Proverbs] There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it. - [Proverbs] There is no reliance to be placed on appearance. - [Proverbs] There was not a greater gourmand living. - [Proverbs] There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith. - [Vice] There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. - [Scandal] They are safe in their number and their close array. - [Proverbs] They have learnt life's lessons. - [Proverbs] They will swear black is white. - [Proverbs] This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. - [Proverbs] Those things please more, which are more expensive. - [Proverbs] Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to discompose their curls. Dandies.] - [Proverbs] Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the power to do so. - [Proverbs] To become proud. - [Proverbial Phrases] To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen. - [Proverbs] To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.] - [Proverbial Phrases] Displaying page 6 of 11 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8 9 10 11
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