"Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]"
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"Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will."
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"Wine-Counsels seldome prosper."
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"Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke."
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"Wine ever paies for his loding."
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"Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood."
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"Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion."
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"Who will sell the Cow, must say the word."
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"Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face."
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"Who remove stones, bruise their fingers."
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"Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul."
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"Who paies the Physitian, does the cure."
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"Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both."
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"Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread."
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"Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse."
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"Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes. [Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes.]"
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"An ill deed cannot bring honor."
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"Be useful where thou livest."
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"The house shows the owner."
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"But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?"
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