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Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Leave not a sword in the hand of an idiot.
Leave not a sword in the hand of an idiot.
Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.
Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.
Take time: much may be gained by patience.
Take time: much may be gained by patience.
All things deteriorate in time.
All things deteriorate in time.
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in read more
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
