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Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know
your selfe.
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know
your selfe.
A jade eates as much as a good horse.
A jade eates as much as a good horse.
Give me the ocular proof.
Give me the ocular proof.
The honied tongue hath its poison.
The honied tongue hath its poison.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
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No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
And flow as now it flows.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
Long jesting was never good.
Long jesting was never good.
