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If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.
If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.
What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.
What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
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Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
She either gives a stomach and no food--
Such are the poor, in health--or else a feast
And takes away the stomach-- such are the rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not.
