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... thou doest wrong , justice has thee on the score . As proud come behind as go before . As soon as you have drank , you turn your back upon the spring . As the market goes , wives must sell . As the old cock crows , so crows the young ...
... thou doest wrong , justice has thee on the score . As proud come behind as go before . As soon as you have drank , you turn your back upon the spring . As the market goes , wives must sell . As the old cock crows , so crows the young ...
Page 12
... thou shouldest buy . At the end of the game you'll see who's the winner . At the end of the work you may judge of the workman . Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune . Backbiting oftener proceeds from pride than malice . Bad ...
... thou shouldest buy . At the end of the game you'll see who's the winner . At the end of the work you may judge of the workman . Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune . Backbiting oftener proceeds from pride than malice . Bad ...
Page 13
... thou perish than truth . Better two losses than one sorrow . Better untaught than ill taught . Bear with evil , and expect good . Beauty draws more than oxen . Beauty in women is like the flowers in Spring ; but virtue is like the stars ...
... thou perish than truth . Better two losses than one sorrow . Better untaught than ill taught . Bear with evil , and expect good . Beauty draws more than oxen . Beauty in women is like the flowers in Spring ; but virtue is like the stars ...
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... thou stumblest at before . Bind so as you may unbind . Birds are entangled by their feet , and men by their tongues . Birth is much , but breeding is more . Black plums may eat as sweet as white . Black will take no other hue . Blessed ...
... thou stumblest at before . Bind so as you may unbind . Birds are entangled by their feet , and men by their tongues . Birth is much , but breeding is more . Black plums may eat as sweet as white . Black will take no other hue . Blessed ...
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... thou may'st not do it twice . Do well , and have well . Dogs bark as they are bred . Dogs once scalded are afraid even of cold water . Dogs that bark at a distance never bite . Dogs wag their tails , not so much in love to you as your ...
... thou may'st not do it twice . Do well , and have well . Dogs bark as they are bred . Dogs once scalded are afraid even of cold water . Dogs that bark at a distance never bite . Dogs wag their tails , not so much in love to you as your ...
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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.