is the virtue of those who are not wise._

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The face is the index of the mind.

_A fair skin often covers a crooked mind._

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Trust not to appearances.

_A fair exterior is a silent recommendation._

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Good fortune ever fights on the side of the prudent.

_Fortune helps the bold._

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A rolling stone gathers no moss.

_Push on, keep moving._

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Out of sight, out of mind.

_Absence makes the heart grow fonder._

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A bad beginning makes a good ending.

_A good beginning makes a good ending._

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Birds of a feather flock together.

_Two birds of prey do not keep each other company._

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All truths are not to be told.

_Tell the truth and shame the devil._

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No jealousy, no love.

_In jealousy there is more self-love than love._

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The end justifies the means.

_Never do evil that good may come of it._

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A sin confessed is half-forgiven.

_A sin concealed is half-pardoned._

WHEN THE LAST CURTAIN FELL.

Some Striking Instances of How Death Has Stepped Behind the Footlights
and Claimed His Victims in Full View of Audiences Who Have Mistaken Real
Tragedy for Play.

"Into Thy hands, O Lord! Into Thy hands!"

These words, inscribed on a card that was fastened to the cross of lilies
sent by Queen Alexandra of England to be laid on the casket containing the
body of Sir Henry Irving, were the last uttered on the stage by that
famous actor. They are the last words of _Becket_, in Tennyson's drama of
that name.

Though Irving did not die on the stage, the hand of death was upon him at
the close of that last performance. He was scarcely more than outside the
theater in Bradford, England, when he was stricken with syncope, and he
died a few minutes after reaching his hotel.

There are a score of other cases on record in which death has appeared on
the stage of a theater for the purpose of marking its victims.

It was a fateful irony that Signor Castelm