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Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.
Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.
The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.
The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.
I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
When war begins, then hell openeth.
When war begins, then hell openeth.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too
bus to take care read more
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too
bus to take care of his tools.
The best manners are stained by haughtiness.
The best manners are stained by haughtiness.
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be
insulted.
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be
insulted.
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
