"Power seldome grows old at Court."
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"Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the market."
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"Perversnes makes one squint ey'd."
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"Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.]"
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"Parsons are soules waggoners."
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"Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements."
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"One stroke fells not an oke."
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"One sound blow will serve to undo us all."
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"One slumber finds another."
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"One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues."
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"One mouth doth nothing without another."
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"One hand washeth another, and both the face."
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"One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes."
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"One foole makes a hundred."
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"One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie."
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"One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants. [One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants']"
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"On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]"
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"Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. [Old praise dies unless you feed it.]"
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"Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]"
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"Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin."
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