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We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.
We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.
A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.
A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original
way.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original
way.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.
The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails.
The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails.
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.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.
A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.
