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The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.
The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.
(They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises.
(They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
A name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth.
A name, it has more than nominal worth,
And belongs to good or bad luck at birth.
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.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
Whither goest thou?
[Lat., Quo vadis?]
Whither goest thou?
[Lat., Quo vadis?]
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
