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Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do.
Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
As you sow, so shall you also reap.
As you sow, so shall you also reap.
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall read more
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls
of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.
The table robbes more then a thiefe.
The table robbes more then a thiefe.
Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.
Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge is power.
