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Some evils are cured by contempt.
Some evils are cured by contempt.
Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
[Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
[Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.
Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
A little Kitchin makes a large house.
A little Kitchin makes a large house.
A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food.
A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
