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means “I'll speak my mind freely”; and of slanderers it is said:

has reference to a fisherman's superstition that it is unlucky to wash out his boat during the fishing season.

One should be careful not to make frequent and excessive demands on а generous friend.

This was the reply of a young lady whose friends objected to her marriage with one whom they considered below her station in life.

Persons of a tyrannical disposition are sometimes deprived of the power to hurt.