The way is an ill neighbour.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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