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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
The higher our position the more modestly should we behave.
The higher our position the more modestly should we behave.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
[Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.
He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
