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Familiarity breeds contempt.
[Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]
Familiarity breeds contempt.
[Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]
Farre shooting never kild bird.
Farre shooting never kild bird.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.
Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
It's good tying the sack before it be full.
It's good tying the sack before it be full.