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The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.
Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Nothing is more acceptable to a man, than a friend in time of
need.
Nothing is more acceptable to a man, than a friend in time of
need.
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, read more
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my
only one!"
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.