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Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer.

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.

Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.