Desire of glory is the last garment that even wise men put off.
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Every man who can blow a horn is not a huntsman.Latin
To every one who doth ask, but not everything he doth ask.
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Now a layman, to-morrow a clerk.
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They look at the greens, but steal the bacon.
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A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
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See that in avoiding cinders you step not on burning coals.
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