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Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).
Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).
Skins may differ, but affection
Dwells in white and black the same.
Skins may differ, but affection
Dwells in white and black the same.
Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.
Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.
Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.
Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
For a morning raine leave not your journey.
For a morning raine leave not your journey.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without.
[There is fault on both sides.]
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without.
[There is fault on both sides.]