"Soft and faire goes farre."
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"Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing."
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"Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest."
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"Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted."
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"The Devill is not alwaies at one doore."
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"The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon."
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"The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore."
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"The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it."
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"The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs."
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"The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity."
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"The command of custome is great."
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"The comforters head never akes."
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"The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes."
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"The cholerick man never wants woe."
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"The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire."
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"The chiefe boxe of health is time."
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"The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne."
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"The body is more drest then the soule."
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"The bit that one eates, no friend makes."
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"The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing."
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