If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.
MartialGenerosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.
MartialThe bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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