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A word spoken in due season, how good is it!
A word spoken in due season, how good is it!
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
