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Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a read more
Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Being on sea saile, being on land settle.
Being on sea saile, being on land settle.
In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.
In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall read more
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Never was anything so inconsistent.
Never was anything so inconsistent.
To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
The more virtuous a man himself is, the less does he suspect
baseness in others.
The more virtuous a man himself is, the less does he suspect
baseness in others.
