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Everybody's business is nobody's business.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
We are fooles one to another.
We are fooles one to another.
A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
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A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.
Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.
Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.
Ty it well, and let it goe.
Ty it well, and let it goe.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
