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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

George Herbert

True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Beauty Flame Light
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Good Hard Newes
Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Money Mony Women
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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Dust Flesh Mortality
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Need Patience Speak
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Children Father First
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Know Shoe Wear Wring
A little labour, much health.
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Health Labour Littles
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Blame Peter Saint
A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Payment Penny People Twice
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Goest Grief People World
In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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Bottom Swim World
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Bacon Chimney Think
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Brabling Need
To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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Gain Spend Techheth
There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
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Fame Many Way

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