FATE
Fate hit me very hard one day.
I cried: "What is my fault?
What have I done? What causes, pray,
This unprovoked assault?"
She paused, then said: "Darned if I know;
I really can't explain."
Then just before she turned to go
She whacked me once again!
--_La Touche Hancock_.
So in the Libyan fable it is told
That once an eagle stricken with a dart,
Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
"With our own feathers, not by others' hands,
Are we now smitten."
--_Aeschylus_.
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ETHICS
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_See_ Dressmakers. ... EXTRAVAGANCE
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_See_ Tips. ... FEET
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