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Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
How well I feathered by nest.
How well I feathered by nest.
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
To a boyling pot flies comes not.
[To a boiling pot flies come not.]
To a boyling pot flies comes not.
[To a boiling pot flies come not.]
He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.
He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
