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Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]

Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]

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Live according to your income.

Live according to your income.

by Periander Of Corinth Found in: General Sayings,
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of
a farthing sixe pence.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of
a farthing sixe pence.

by George Herbert Found in: General Sayings,
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O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more

O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!

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Tithe, and be rich.

Tithe, and be rich.

by George Herbert Found in: General Sayings,
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We get blows and return them.

We get blows and return them.

by Unknown Found in: General Sayings,
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Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will
become broken and his torch extinguished.

Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will
become broken and his torch extinguished.

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He that hath lands hath quarrells.

He that hath lands hath quarrells.

by George Herbert Found in: General Sayings,
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One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow.

One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow.

by William Shakespeare Found in: General Sayings,
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