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Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.
Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.
There is no proverb which is not true.
[Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
There is no proverb which is not true.
[Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.
Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to
hear the song of read more
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to
hear the song of fools.
The present century was growing blind
To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,
Until his late read more
The present century was growing blind
To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,
Until his late life by Archdeacon Coxe.
What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
