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Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty is the best policy.
He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.
He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own
proportion and standard.
It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own
proportion and standard.
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts
not.
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts
not.
No man can serve two masters.
No man can serve two masters.