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 To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty 
matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that read more 
 To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty 
matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker a good 
workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot." 
 If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in 
what part it pinched you.
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 If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in 
what part it pinched you.
 [Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te 
urgeret.] 
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
 Cinderella's lefts and rights
 To Geraldine's were frights,
  And I trow
   The damsel, deftly read more 
 Cinderella's lefts and rights
 To Geraldine's were frights,
  And I trow
   The damsel, deftly shod,
    Has dutifully trod
     Until now. 
 Shoemaker, stick to your last.
 [Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]  
 Shoemaker, stick to your last.
 [Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.] 
 The fairy stitching gleams
 On the sides and in the seams,
  And it shows
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 The fairy stitching gleams
 On the sides and in the seams,
  And it shows
   That Pixies were the wags
    Who tipped these funny tags
     And these toes. 
 Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
 [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]  
 Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
 [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.] 
 I was not made of common calf,
 Nor ever meant for country loon;
  If with an axe read more 
 I was not made of common calf,
 Nor ever meant for country loon;
  If with an axe I seem cut out,
   The workman was no cobbling clown;
    A good jack boot with double sole he made,
     To roam the woods, or through the rivers wade.