Florio

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(843 votes)  Who has not served cannot command.

John Florio
c.1553-1625, British Author, Translator

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(336 votes)  Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

John Florio
c.1553-1625, British Author, Translator

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(335 votes)  A good husband makes a good wife.

John Florio
c.1553-1625, British Author, Translator

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(335 votes)  To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.

John Florio
c.1553-1625, British Author, Translator

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(327 votes)  For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

John Florio
c.1553-1625, British Author, Translator

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(320 votes)  Praise the sea; on shore remain.

John Florio
c.1553-1625, British Author, Translator

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