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Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
No herb can remedy the anguish of love.
No herb can remedy the anguish of love.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
A friend should bear a friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
A friend should bear a friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.
Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
[Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]
Familiarity breeds contempt.
[Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]
By suppers more have beene killed then Gallen ever cured.
By suppers more have beene killed then Gallen ever cured.
