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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.
Our liberality should not exceed our ability.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Talkers are no good doers.
Talkers are no good doers.
It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.