"It is most true, stylus virum arguit,--our style bewrays us."

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"Rob Peter, and pay Paul."

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"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long."

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"They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works."

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"Naught so sweet as melancholy."

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"[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings."

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"Women wear the breeches."

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"I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling."

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"As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight."

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"Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer."

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"I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."

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"Can build castles in the air."

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"England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes."

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"Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him.""

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"Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges."

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"Though they [philosophers] write contemptu gloriæ, yet as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books."

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"[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors."

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"Idleness is an appendix to nobility."

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"A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better."

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"If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled."

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""Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play.""

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"As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face."

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"Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man."

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"Many things happen between the cup and the lip."

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"Out of too much learning become mad."

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"Going as if he trod upon eggs."

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"Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty."

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"To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance."

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"Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place."

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"Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits, greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been base [born]."

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"One religion is as true as another."

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"Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?"

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"The commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.""

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"I light my candle from their torches."

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"[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies."

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"As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it."

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"Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end."

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"The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies."

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"Make a virtue of necessity."

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"We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars; kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed."

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"All our geese are swans."

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"Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel."

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"No rule is so general, which admits not some exception."

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"I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together."

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"What can't be cured must be endured."

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"Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel."

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"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

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"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."

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"They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud."

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"As he said in Machiavel, omnes eodem patre nati, Adam's sons, conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our clothes, and what is the difference?""

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