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When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which
has been entrusted to you, though sorely read more
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which
has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and
passion.
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and
that which we ourselves possess is most read more
The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and
that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.
Better late than never.
[Lat., Potius sero quam nunquam.]
Better late than never.
[Lat., Potius sero quam nunquam.]
