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When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.
Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.