It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
PLAUTUSA word to the wise is sufficient
More Plautus Quotes
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It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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Courage is its own reward.
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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