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All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.
All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.
Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.
He that is at ease seekes dainties.
He that is at ease seekes dainties.
He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not.
He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not.
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the
power to do so.
Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the
power to do so.
Anothers bread costs deare.
Anothers bread costs deare.