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If you must flie, flie well.
If you must flie, flie well.
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your read more
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your depth.]
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
To taste many things bespeaks but a poor appetite. [To engage in
a multiplicity of studies shows but a read more
To taste many things bespeaks but a poor appetite. [To engage in
a multiplicity of studies shows but a weak mind.]
The question is yet before the court.
The question is yet before the court.
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a
hundred sons one father.
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a
hundred sons one father.
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often
mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often
mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
