"How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense."
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"A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold."
"Curtesie on one side only lasts not long."
"Gamsters and race-horses never last long."
"He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death."
"A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]"
"He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give."
"Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full."
"Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it."
"If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long."
"How long it will take until we get to a Golden Age where everybody's perfectly in tune with God's will, I don't know; but because of Prabhupada, Krishna consciousness has certainly spread more in the last sixteen years than it has since the sixteenth century, since the time of Lord Caitanya. The mantra has spread more quickly and the movement's gotten bigger and bigger."
"Some things take so long But how do I explain When not too many people Can see we're all the same And because of all their tears Your eyes can't hope to see The beauty that surrounds them Now, isn't it a pity"
"All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call."
"I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work."
"Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had."
"Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]"
"Long jesting was never good."
"The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]"
"All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more."
"I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail."