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When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink.
When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
To climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first.
To climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first.
I'll potch at him some way;
Or wrath or craft may get him.
I'll potch at him some way;
Or wrath or craft may get him.
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.
Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
