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Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Springes to catch woodcocks.
Springes to catch woodcocks.
Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
A lady with her daughters or her nieces,
Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces.
A lady with her daughters or her nieces,
Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces.
Dally not with mony or women.
Dally not with mony or women.
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
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.
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.