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They talk like angels but they live like men.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.
We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.
He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.
The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick
sleepes.
The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick
sleepes.
A woman and a glasse are ever in danger.
[A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]
A woman and a glasse are ever in danger.
[A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]
Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me, when every noise appals me?
Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me, when every noise appals me?
He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.
He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.
