The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
GEORGE HERBERTLittle pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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