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To a boyling pot flies comes not.
[To a boiling pot flies come not.]
To a boyling pot flies comes not.
[To a boiling pot flies come not.]
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.
She can change her
Mind like the wind: whatever she has said
Or done, is light to read more
She can change her
Mind like the wind: whatever she has said
Or done, is light to what she'll say or do.
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my read more
I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.
He that serves well needes not ask his wages.
He that serves well needes not ask his wages.
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
