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Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
The soule needs few things, the body many.
The soule needs few things, the body many.
And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.
And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.
