To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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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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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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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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