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All things require skill, but an appetite.
All things require skill, but an appetite.
No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.
No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
It will please though ten times repeated.
It will please though ten times repeated.
It is easy to be wise after the event.
It is easy to be wise after the event.
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,
Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at read more
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,
Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.
The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at
every water, shall neither have good read more
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at
every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.
