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The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
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.
Every great house is full of saucy servants.
Every great house is full of saucy servants.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
[Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
[Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]
One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him.
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The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him.
[The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.]
The shadow of a mighty name.
The shadow of a mighty name.
Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the
Christmas holyday.
Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the
Christmas holyday.
