"Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe,……" — John Florio
"Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill."
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John Florio
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15 Quotes by John Florio
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Praise the sea; on shore remain.
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Who hath not served can not command.
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Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
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Night is the mother of thoughts.
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Patience is the best medicine.
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Wisdom sails with wind and time.
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Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.
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From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.
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To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To…
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For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases…
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England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
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Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it
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