More from James Howell

  1. Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.
  2. To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
  3. God consents but not always.
  4. There's fence against all things except death.
  5. Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.
  6. He falls in the pit he digs for others.
  7. The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.
  8. Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.

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