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The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin.
[The fable of frog and the cow.]
The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin.
[The fable of frog and the cow.]
You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes.
You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes.
It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.
It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.
A woman conceales what shee knowes not.
A woman conceales what shee knowes not.
The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.
Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.
