"He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, who, being asked what he painted, answered, "As it may hit;" and when he had scrawled out a misshapen cock, was forced to write underneath, in Gothic letters, "This is a cock.""

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"I was so free with him as not to mince the matter."

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"The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment."

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"The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life."

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"All is not gold that glisters."

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"When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain."

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"Murder will out."

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"It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued."

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"He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie."

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"Here is the devil-and-all to pay."

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"Matters will go swimmingly."

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"I know what 's what, and have always taken care of the main chance."

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"Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?"

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"They must needs go whom the Devil drives."

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"Little said is soonest mended."

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"More knave than fool."

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"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."

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"Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves."

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"Liberty . . . is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind."

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"As they use to say, spick and span new."

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"My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain."

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"I think it a very happy accident."

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"Rome was not built in a day."

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"The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death."

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"Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones."

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"My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back."

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"Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted."

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"Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last."

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"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."

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"I shall be as secret as the grave."

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"Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even."

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"We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead."

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"Hope tells a flattering tale, Delusive, vain, and hollow. Ah! let not hope prevail, Lest disappointment follow."

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"This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars."

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"It is to hope, though hope were lost."

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"Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?"

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"Life! we 've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'T is hard to part when friends are dear,-- Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not "Good night," but in some brighter clime Bid me "Good morning.""

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"Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky."

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"So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore."

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"What fairy-like music steals over the sea, Entrancing our senses with charmed melody?"

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"Nor peace nor ease the heart can know Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too."

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"The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground: 'T was therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pain grows sharp and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears."

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"To be resign'd when ills betide, Patient when favours are deni'd, And pleas'd with favours given,-- Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part; This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to heaven."

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"Yet still we hug the dear deceit."

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"Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee."

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"If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home."

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"Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread."

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"Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace, That 't is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him."

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"When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war."

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"Then he will talk--good gods! how he will talk!"

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