Prettiness dies first.
GEORGE HERBERTMany, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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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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Heresie is the school of pride.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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