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Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
James Howell
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James Howell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1594
Born: January 1
Died: 1666
Died: January 1
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Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back that is, she should make all sure at home.
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The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.
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In time of prosperity friends will be plenty In time of adversity not one in twenty.
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
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Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.
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Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]
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