"To a greedy eating horse a short halter."
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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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"Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make."
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"Gamsters and race-horses never last long."
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"Flies are busiest about leane horses."
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"A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]"
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"A jade eates as much as a good horse."
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"It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender."
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"The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped."
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"The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground."
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"Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face."
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"One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)"
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"He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night."
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"The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses."
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"The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things."
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"Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass."
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"It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes."
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"There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women."
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"The change between horse and buggy to automobile is a big change and there hasn't been a major change since."
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"Horses are 100% better that people. I love hanging out with my horse, chilling. They're so amazing and ethereal. I could hang with horses all day."
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