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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so
will pains.
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so
will pains.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
There's nothing makes me so much grieve,
As that abominable tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud eschew'd by read more
There's nothing makes me so much grieve,
As that abominable tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud eschew'd by human cattle.
Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.
Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has
received one, proclaim it.
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has
received one, proclaim it.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
There was not a greater gourmand living.
There was not a greater gourmand living.
He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.
He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.