The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems … - William Cowper

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You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

William Cowper

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

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Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

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