<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=370857" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet - The World's Like This</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You give an inch and people take a mile; <br>You show them kindness which they don't deserve; <br>Be lenient and time they try to while; <br>Forgive them and thine enemies, they serve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You condescend; they think you are a clown; <br>You help them and they show ingratitude; <br>A villager is crazy after a town; <br>Be gentle and they turn to be so rude.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The virtuous man lands up wrongly in vice; <br>From venial sins, he commits mortal ones; <br>There is no one who takes free good advice; <br>The brainy child works less and turns a dunce.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> You cannot judge people in simple ways; <br> You can't believe the human ayes and nays.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=370857" data-title="Sonnet - The World's Like This de John Celes" data-description="You give an inch and people take a mile; You show them kindness which they don't deserve; Be lenient and time they try to while; Forgive them and thine enemies, they serve. You condescend; they think you are a clown; You help them and they sh..."></div> </div> </div>

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