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Anothers bread costs deare.
Anothers bread costs deare.
 No greater grief than to remember days
 Of joy when misery is at hand.  
 No greater grief than to remember days
 Of joy when misery is at hand. 
Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.
Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.
 A long tongue is a signe of a short hand.
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 A long tongue is a signe of a short hand.
 [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.] 
 He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe 
into a good way.  
 He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe 
into a good way. 
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
 How commentators each dark passage shun,
 And hold their farthing candle to the sun.  
 How commentators each dark passage shun,
 And hold their farthing candle to the sun. 
He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.