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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.
He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.
Springes to catch woodcocks.
Springes to catch woodcocks.
