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If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
Charity sees the need not the cause.
Charity sees the need not the cause.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his
sheep.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his
sheep.
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
Greene wood makes a hott fire.
Greene wood makes a hott fire.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
