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Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.

Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]

Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]

Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian

Of two evils choose the least.

The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.

even if he had one foot in the grave.

A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit.

We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.

It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.

We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff.

From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirit.

It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions.

Classes and masses.

I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one for t'other. Save me and I'll give you a taper or go on a pilgrimage.

An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.