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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
What mare's nest hast thou found?
What mare's nest hast thou found?
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.
The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.
This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.
This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
