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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active
employment.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active
employment.
Service without reward is punishment.
Service without reward is punishment.
Many kisse the hand they wish cut off.
Many kisse the hand they wish cut off.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
He that hath little is the lesse durtie.
He that hath little is the lesse durtie.
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch
Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.
I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch
Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.
A woman the leader of the enterprise.
A woman the leader of the enterprise.
