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To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.
Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.
He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.
He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.
To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.
To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
Let no man seek
Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall
Him or his children.
Let no man seek
Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall
Him or his children.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
