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Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.
Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill dyet was the
mother.
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill dyet was the
mother.
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded.
That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded.
That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
The greatest step is that out of doores.
[The greatest step is that out of doors.]
The greatest step is that out of doores.
[The greatest step is that out of doors.]
The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine.
The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine.
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!