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... honest man is enough . A penny saved is two pence got . A pilot is not chosen for his riches , but his knowledge . A pin a day is a groat a year . A plaster is a small amends for a broken head . A poor man wants some things , a covetous ...
... honest man is enough . A penny saved is two pence got . A pilot is not chosen for his riches , but his knowledge . A pin a day is a groat a year . A plaster is a small amends for a broken head . A poor man wants some things , a covetous ...
Page 9
... 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 desireth not an ill son . An ill man is ...
... 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 desireth not an ill son . An ill man is ...
Page 18
... honesty can wait a fair leisure . Deceiving of a deceiver is no knavery . Decency and decorum are not pride . Deeds are fruits , words are leaves . Defiance provokes an enemy . Delays increase desires , and sometimes extinguish them ...
... honesty can wait a fair leisure . Deceiving of a deceiver is no knavery . Decency and decorum are not pride . Deeds are fruits , words are leaves . Defiance provokes an enemy . Delays increase desires , and sometimes extinguish them ...
Page 36
... honest men , must leave off dealing . He that returns a good for evil obtains the victory . He that runs out by extravagancy , must retrieve by parsimony . He that's always shooting , must sometimes hit . He that's angry without a cause ...
... honest men , must leave off dealing . He that returns a good for evil obtains the victory . He that runs out by extravagancy , must retrieve by parsimony . He that's always shooting , must sometimes hit . He that's angry without a cause ...
Page 39
... Honest is the cat when the meat is upon the hook . Honest men are soon bound , but you can never bind a knave . Honest mens words are as good as their bonds . Honesty and plain dealing puts knavery out of the bias . Honesty is the best ...
... Honest is the cat when the meat is upon the hook . Honest men are soon bound , but you can never bind a knave . Honest mens words are as good as their bonds . Honesty and plain dealing puts knavery out of the bias . Honesty is the best ...
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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.