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Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.
Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
You began better than you have finished; the last act is not
equal to the first.
You began better than you have finished; the last act is not
equal to the first.
All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.
All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.
If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
