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If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been
caught.
If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been
caught.
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.
Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.
A faire death honours the whole life.
A faire death honours the whole life.
To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.
To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.
