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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.
When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
Speake not of my debts, unlesse you meane to pay them.
Speake not of my debts, unlesse you meane to pay them.
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault.
All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault.
A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
