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He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.

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I thought you and he had been hand-and-glove.

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She watches him, as a cat would watch a mouse.

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I hate nobody: I am in charity with all the world.

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Reason is a very light rider and easily shook off.

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She looks as if butter wou'dn't melt in her mouth.

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'T is happy for him that his father was before him.

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I shall be like that tree; I shall die from the top.

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Method is good in all things. Order governs the world.

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Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

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Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

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Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age…

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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.

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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

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As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.

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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

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Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

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…one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.

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I value not your bill of fare, give me your bill of company.

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I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

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Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!

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As learned commentators view
In Homer more than Homer knew.

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Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

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The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

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Elephants are always drawn smaller than life, but a flea larger.

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Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

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We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.

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He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.

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