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The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.
After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none.
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
