It is a wretched position to be dependent on others for support.
More Latin Proverbs:
One who would quarrel about goats' wool.Latin
I would rather buy than beg.
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Contrasts mutually set off each other.
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Have a care how you irritate the wasps. [Meddle not with waspish people. Attack not a combined force.]
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Satires run faster than panegyrics.
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Happy is the man whose father went to the devil.
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