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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Ships feare fire more then water.
Ships feare fire more then water.
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
It is peculiarly a fool's habit to discern the faults of others,
and to forget his own.
It is peculiarly a fool's habit to discern the faults of others,
and to forget his own.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
wrath: Neither give place to read more
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
wrath: Neither give place to the devil.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your read more
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your depth.]
Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.
Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.