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A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.
A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well
mended.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well
mended.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.
Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is
courteous.
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is
courteous.
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
In time the rod
Becomes more mocked than feared.
In time the rod
Becomes more mocked than feared.