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Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to
approach the place of danger.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to
approach the place of danger.
Hit the nail on the head.
Hit the nail on the head.
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish.
[I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish.
[I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.
The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
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For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's part.
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
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He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.