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Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.

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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
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To a boiling pot flies come not.
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Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]
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In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.]
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Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.
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Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.
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