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Short boughs, long vintage.
Short boughs, long vintage.
His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it.
His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
No naked man is sought after to be rifled.
No naked man is sought after to be rifled.
He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.
He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like
unto him.
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Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like
unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own
conceit.
He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he
repents himself of time.
He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he
repents himself of time.
Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.
Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.
