In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.
For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!
A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.
Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter!
There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.
