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On their own merits modest men are dumb.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty is the best policy.
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
