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Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
To him that will, waies are not wanting.
To him that will, waies are not wanting.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Dally not with mony or women.
Dally not with mony or women.
The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second
to professe it, the third to read more
The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second
to professe it, the third to despise counsell.