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Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like
unto him.
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Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like
unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own
conceit.
Love and businesse teach eloquence.
Love and businesse teach eloquence.
A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender
mercies of the wicked are cruel.
A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender
mercies of the wicked are cruel.
. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory read more
It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, than by fear.
Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
