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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with
all thy getting get understanding.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with
all thy getting get understanding.
Pension never inriched young man.
Pension never inriched young man.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
Of two evils I have chose the least.
Of two evils I have chose the least.
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
She was one of those who by fortune's boon
Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon
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She was one of those who by fortune's boon
Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon
In her mouth, not a wooden ladle.
