Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
GEORGE HERBERTIn thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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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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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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