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Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of
gold?
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of
gold?
Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.
The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.
O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
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Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
