The wife is the key of the house.
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 tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Weening is not measure.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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The offender never pardons.
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The eye will have his part.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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