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Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.
Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.
They condemn that which they cannot comprehend.
They condemn that which they cannot comprehend.
There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.
There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
A little lett lets an ill workeman.
A little lett lets an ill workeman.
Not even the gods can withstand necessity.
Not even the gods can withstand necessity.
Love makes one fitt for any work.
Love makes one fitt for any work.