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... enemy . A dog will not cry if you beat him with a bone . A drowning man will catch at a rush . A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter . A fair booty makes many a thief . A fair face is half a portion . A fair wife without a ...
... enemy . A dog will not cry if you beat him with a bone . A drowning man will catch at a rush . A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter . A fair booty makes many a thief . A fair face is half a portion . A fair wife without a ...
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... enemy , but often loseth a friend . A journey were better too long than dangerous . A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning . A lamb is as dear to a poor man , as an ox to the rich . A light purse makes a heavy heart . A little ...
... enemy , but often loseth a friend . A journey were better too long than dangerous . A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning . A lamb is as dear to a poor man , as an ox to the rich . A light purse makes a heavy heart . A little ...
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... enemy . A little of every thing is nothing in the main . A little time may be enough to hatch a great deal of mischief . A long harvest and a little corn . A long life hath long miseries . A low edge is easily leaped over . A mad beast ...
... enemy . A little of every thing is nothing in the main . A little time may be enough to hatch a great deal of mischief . A long harvest and a little corn . A long life hath long miseries . A low edge is easily leaped over . A mad beast ...
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... enemy may chance to give good counsel . An honest good look covereth many faults . An hour will destroy what an age was building . An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure . An ill conscience can never hope well . An ill father ...
... enemy may chance to give good counsel . An honest good look covereth many faults . An hour will destroy what an age was building . An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure . An ill conscience can never hope well . An ill father ...
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... enemy . Delays increase desires , and sometimes extinguish them . Denying a fault doubles it . Dependance is a poor ... enemies . Dexterity comes by experience . Diamonds cut diamonds . Difficulty makes desire , Difficulties give 18 ...
... enemy . Delays increase desires , and sometimes extinguish them . Denying a fault doubles it . Dependance is a poor ... enemies . Dexterity comes by experience . Diamonds cut diamonds . Difficulty makes desire , Difficulties give 18 ...
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Popular passages
Page 106 - A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
Page 24 - For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
Page 57 - No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Page 41 - I with a new one : it is so well worth taking a journey for, that if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Page 45 - Else there is nothing that can comfort you: but if you have served God in a holy life, send away the women and the weepers; tell them it is as much intemperance to weep .too much as to laugh too much...
Page 121 - Tell me with whom thou goest, and I'll tell thee what thou doest.
Page 122 - If the twenty-fourth of August be fair and clear, Then hope for a prosperous autumn that year.
Page 17 - CUSTOM is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools.
Page 119 - When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever.
Page 3 - A good cause and a good tongue, yet money must carry it. A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arm.