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When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink.
When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
It takes much from the account, to which his sin doth amount.
It takes much from the account, to which his sin doth amount.
The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and
that which we ourselves possess is most read more
The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and
that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.
In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome.
In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome.
In poison there is no physic.
In poison there is no physic.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
The table robbes more then a thiefe.
The table robbes more then a thiefe.
