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"Where goest thou, Ignorance?"
"To fortify the mind of a maiden against a peril."
"I am going thy way. My name is Knowledge."
"Scoundrel! Thou art the peril."
A prude is one who blushes modestly at the indelicacy of her thoughts and virtuously flies from the temptation of her desires.
The man who is always taking you by the hand is the same who if you were hungry would take you by the café.
When a certain sovereign wanted war he threw out a diplomatic intimation; when ready, a diplomat.
If public opinion were determined by a throw of the dice, it would in the long run be half the time right.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.