A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.
Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.