Swedish Proverb

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    It’s better to sit in the bar and think of church than to sit in church and to think of the bar.
    Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.

    I shall not want false witness to condemn me,
    Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt.
    The ancient proverb will be well effected:
    “A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.”
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)