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First learn and then teach.
Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know."
The birds of the air despise a miser.
If thy goods sell not in one city, take them to another.
Victuals prepared by many cooks will be neither cold nor hot.[100]
[100] Too many cooks spoil the broth.--_English Proverb_.
Two pieces of money in a large jar make more noise than a hundred.[101]
[101] Two farthings and a thimble
In a tailor's pocket make a jingle.--_English Saying_.
Into the well which supplies thee with water cast no stones.[102]
[102] "Don't speak ill of the bridge that bore you safe over
the stream" seems to be the European equivalent.
When love is intense, both find room enough upon one bench; afterwards,
they may find themselves cramped in a space of sixty cubits.[103]
[103] Python, of Byzantium, was a very corpulent man. He once
said to the citizens, in addressing them to make friends
after a political dispute: "Gentlemen, you see how stout
I am. Well, I have a wife at home who is still stouter.
Now, when we are good friends, we can sit together on a
very small couch; but when we quarrel, I do assure you,
the whole house cannot contain us."--_Athenaeus_, xii.
The place honours not the man; it is the man who gives honour to the
place.
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