A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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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He that burnes most shines most.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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The wife is the key of the house.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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The eye will have his part.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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