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Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
The market is the best garden.
The market is the best garden.
What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.
Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.
'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather.
'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather.