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Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master
from the house.
The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master
from the house.
It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.
It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my read more
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my power,
That gall'd not while it glitter'd.
His essences turn the live air sick.
His essences turn the live air sick.
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
