Vulgar words in Cowley's Essays (Page 1)
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The master mouth has no more than before; the owner, methinks, is like Genus in the fable, who is perpetually winding a rope of hay and an ass at the end perpetually eating it.
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There are two sorts of avarice; the one is but of a bastard kind; and that is, the rapacious appetite of gain, not for its own sake, but for the pleasure of refunding it immediately through all the channels of pride and luxury.
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The lawyer, knocked up early from his rest By restless clients, calls the peasant blest.
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Thou neither the buffoon nor bawd canst play, Nor with false whispers the innocent betray: Nor corrupt wives, nor from rich beldams get A living by thy industry and sweat: Nor with vain promises and projects cheat, Nor bribe or flatter any of the great.
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The world may so come in a man's way that he cannot choose but salute it; he must take heed, though, not to go a whoring after it.