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No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
A bellowing cow soon forgets her calf.
A bellowing cow soon forgets her calf.
The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
Two other tender drops, which ready stood,
Each in their crystal sluice.
Two other tender drops, which ready stood,
Each in their crystal sluice.
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a
Tartar.]
I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a
Tartar.]