Put your best foot forward.

Put your best foot forward.

This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.

There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.

There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.

The least foolish is wise.

The least foolish is wise.

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer,
strike your fill.

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.

There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.