"When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore."
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"When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. [When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]"
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"When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things."
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"When my house burnes, it's not good playing at Chesse."
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"When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]"
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"When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding."
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"When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly."
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"When children stand quiet, they have done some ill."
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"When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young."
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"When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]"
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"When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]"
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"When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach."
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"When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin."
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"Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one."
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"You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvile."
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"You may be on land, yet not in a garden."
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"You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out."
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"You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes."
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"You cannot flea a stone."
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"Working and making a fire doth discretion require."
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