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Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a read more
Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]
He is most powerful who governs himself.
He is most powerful who governs himself.
Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).
Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
What's done cannot be undone.
What's done cannot be undone.
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it
were not begun on particular ends, it read more
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it
were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
'Tis neither here nor there.
'Tis neither here nor there.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far
country.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far
country.
