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Wode has erys, felde has sigt.
Wode has erys, felde has sigt.
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.
Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
[The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence.
No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence.
A child correct behind and not before.
A child correct behind and not before.
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
