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

England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

Believe Robert who has tried it.

The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.

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

He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.

Many things happen between the cup and the lip.

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.

All places are distant from heaven alike.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

For idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.

Build castles in the air.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.

Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.

Out of too much learning become mad.