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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original
way.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original
way.
The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.
The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
Though old and wise, yet still advise.
Though old and wise, yet still advise.
He is not poor who has a competency.
He is not poor who has a competency.
Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.
Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.