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Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
Woe to the house where there is no chiding.
Woe to the house where there is no chiding.
Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.
Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.
He follows his father, but with shorter strides.
He follows his father, but with shorter strides.
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
Vain, froward child of empire, say,
Are all thy playthings snatched away?
Vain, froward child of empire, say,
Are all thy playthings snatched away?
Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.
Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.
A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers.
A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers.
