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To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
All is not gold that glisters.
All is not gold that glisters.
She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret
fire.
She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret
fire.
God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens,
and to rivers foords.
God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens,
and to rivers foords.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.
