It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

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Moses said to the Lord, The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself...

Moses said to the Lord, The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself...

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search...

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search...

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to...

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to...

And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun...

And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun...

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they...

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they...

Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto...

Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto...

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a...

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a...

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. (Psalms...

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. (Psalms...

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance...

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance...

If wise men were hairs the world would need a wig

If wise men were hairs the world would need a wig

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? And we...

My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? And we...

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to...

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to...

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and...

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and...

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time...

Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time...

And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a...

And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a...

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not consider his appearance or his height, for...

But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not consider his appearance or his height, for...

Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the...

Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the...

And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way:...

And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way:...