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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!
O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!
In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Every man can master a grief but he that has it.
Every man can master a grief but he that has it.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
While I plan, and plan, my hair
Is gray before I know it.
While I plan, and plan, my hair
Is gray before I know it.
In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
He gives twice who gives quickly.
[Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.]
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He gives twice who gives quickly.
[Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.]
- credited to Publius Syrus Mimus,
Common report is not always wrong.
Common report is not always wrong.
