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Neither cast your pearls before swine.
Neither cast your pearls before swine.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
judgment.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand
judgment.
Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.
Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
I tell you that which you yourselves do know,
Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,
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I tell you that which you yourselves do know,
Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,
And bid them speak for me.
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.
A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.