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Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
Every ill man hath his ill day.
Every ill man hath his ill day.
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only
knew the pleasures which surround you!
Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only
knew the pleasures which surround you!
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him
at all.
To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him
at all.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit.
The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit.