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All griefes with bread are lesse.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.
Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
That he suspects none.
Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
That he suspects none.
Make three bites of a cherry.
Make three bites of a cherry.
Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.
Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
