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The Netherlands have been for many years, as one may say, the very cockpit of Christendom.

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Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

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Some hold translations not unlike to be
The wrong side of a Turkey tapestry.


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Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

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To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.

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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

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To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.

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Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.

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He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.

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The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.

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He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

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Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

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The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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James Howell
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Born: 1594
Died: 1666 (aged 72)
Bio: James Howell was a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age.
Known for:
  1. A Disturbed Girl's Guide to Curing Boredom
  2. Gangs in America's Communities
  3. A Disturbed Girl Implodes

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