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Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
The goddess was discovered by her gait.
The goddess was discovered by her gait.
The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is
entrusted to them.
The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is
entrusted to them.
God has joined the innocent with the guilty.
God has joined the innocent with the guilty.
A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken
to is silent.
A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken
to is silent.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to
approach the place of danger.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to
approach the place of danger.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.
A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.
