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Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall read more
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.
A little and good fills the trencher.
A little and good fills the trencher.
The style is the man.
[Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.]
The style is the man.
[Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.]
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
For washing his hands, none sels his lands.
For washing his hands, none sels his lands.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
