It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
PLAUTUSVulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
More Plautus Quotes
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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The evil that we know is best.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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You will stir up the hornets.
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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