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Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.
A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.
Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
Thinking to bite something soft, he found it hard. [Catching a
Tartar]
Thinking to bite something soft, he found it hard. [Catching a
Tartar]
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one
difficulty involves us in another.
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one
difficulty involves us in another.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
