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The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they
fall.
The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they
fall.
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then
by stars at their nativities.
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then
by stars at their nativities.
He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than
yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he read more
He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than
yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare
yourself.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
That least pleases us which is most urged on us.
That least pleases us which is most urged on us.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church
still.
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church
still.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
