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Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.
When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things.
When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.
A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.
Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.
Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.
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 desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification
being deferred.
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification
being deferred.
