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Quotes by John Ray

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Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
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He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one.
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Fish must swim thrice – once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
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Who depends on another man’s table often dines late.
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A child may have too much of his mother’s blessing.
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I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I’d eat thee.
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Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
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A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they’re beaten the better they be.
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Listeners ne’er hear good of themselves.
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The wind in a man’s face makes him wise.
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