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It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

Children and fools speak true.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.

The night has a thousand eyes.

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

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