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Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.
Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like read more
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about
your fretted roofs.
Hold their nose to the grindstone.
Hold their nose to the grindstone.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing.
He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing.
Which he by hook or crook has gather'd
And by his own inventions father'd.
Which he by hook or crook has gather'd
And by his own inventions father'd.
