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To review ones store is to mow twice.
To review ones store is to mow twice.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
Wo be to him that reads but one book.
Wo be to him that reads but one book.
Patience, time and money accommodate all things.
Patience, time and money accommodate all things.
In nothing do men so much resemble the gods as in giving help to
their fellow creatures.
In nothing do men so much resemble the gods as in giving help to
their fellow creatures.
He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.
He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing.
No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing.
He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than
yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he read more
He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than
yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare
yourself.
