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A friend is a second self.
A friend is a second self.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he read more
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
The first blow is as much as two.
The first blow is as much as two.
What is harder than stone?
What more soft than water?
Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it read more
What is harder than stone?
What more soft than water?
Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.
An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing.
He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing.
