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Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
'Tis an ill dog that deserves not a crust.
'Tis an ill dog that deserves not a crust.
For no one cares for matrimonial cooings,
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.
For no one cares for matrimonial cooings,
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who
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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who
inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.
Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart from it.
This is no time for staring about.
This is no time for staring about.
Let the worst come to the worst.
Let the worst come to the worst.