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A fool's bolt is soon shot.
A fool's bolt is soon shot.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Time flies, as he flies, adds increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from read more
Time flies, as he flies, adds increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.
Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.
Though the Mastiffe be gentile, yet bite him not by the lippe.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
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.
