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The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him.
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The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him.
[The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.]
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and
hatred therewith.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and
hatred therewith.
It is good to be taught even by an enemy.
It is good to be taught even by an enemy.
Put your toong in your purse.
Put your toong in your purse.
The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted.
The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted.
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
