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It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can
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It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can
be successful without being envied and hated.]
One flower makes no garland.
One flower makes no garland.
He who profits by a crime, commits it.
He who profits by a crime, commits it.
It is peculiarly a fool's habit to discern the faults of others,
and to forget his own.
It is peculiarly a fool's habit to discern the faults of others,
and to forget his own.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
Idle men are the devil's playfellows.
Idle men are the devil's playfellows.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.