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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
The more they drink the more they thirst.
The more they drink the more they thirst.
All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is
courteous.
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is
courteous.
One sound blow will serve to undo us all.
One sound blow will serve to undo us all.