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It's good tying the sack before it be full.
It's good tying the sack before it be full.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.
He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.
