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Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the
dowry is too large.
It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the
dowry is too large.
They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed
to rich men that are unthankful to God).
They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed
to rich men that are unthankful to God).
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
Every ill man hath his ill day.
Every ill man hath his ill day.
To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.
To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.
To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.
To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.
He that serves well needes not ask his wages.
He that serves well needes not ask his wages.
