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Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your
wild oats.
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your
wild oats.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.