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To taste many things bespeaks but a poor appetite. [To engage in
a multiplicity of studies shows but a read more
To taste many things bespeaks but a poor appetite. [To engage in
a multiplicity of studies shows but a weak mind.]
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.
To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.
Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on
every thing.
Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on
every thing.
Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;
So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink;
So may he cease to write, and learn to think.
Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.
Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.
