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Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
It is difficult to fly without wings.
It is difficult to fly without wings.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Time is the Rider that breakes youth.
Time is the Rider that breakes youth.
Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.
Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.