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Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.

— James Howell Parly of Beasts (1660)

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

English Proverbs (1659)

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

Familiar Letters (1645)

Nor is this lower world but a huge inn,
And men the rambling passengers.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

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