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Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth
the law, happy is he.
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth
the law, happy is he.
Truth and oyle are ever above.
Truth and oyle are ever above.
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
The next way home's the farthest way about.
The next way home's the farthest way about.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.
For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]