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All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the
Dead (i.e. books).
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the
Dead (i.e. books).
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults.
There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should
perish by his own craft.
There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should
perish by his own craft.
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of
the thing.
Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of
the thing.
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be read more
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.