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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men's works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face:
Four ways in court to win man's grace.

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.