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Never was anything so inconsistent.
Never was anything so inconsistent.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Modesty should accompany youth.
Modesty should accompany youth.
Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.
Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
He will be beloved when he is no more.
He will be beloved when he is no more.
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]
