"Corn is the sinews of war."

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"He left a paper sealed up, wherein were found three articles as his last will: "I owe much; I have nothing; I give the rest to the poor.""

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"I drink no more than a sponge."

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"He that has patience may compass anything."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"The Devil was sick,--the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well,--the devil a monk was he."

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"Like hearts of oak."

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"He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time."

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"Nothing is so dear and precious as time."

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"By robbing Peter he paid Paul, . . . and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall."

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"It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses."

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"I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus."

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"Scampering as if the Devil drove them."

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"We will take the good will for the deed."

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"Speak the truth and shame the Devil."

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"A good crier of green sauce."

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"Needs must when the Devil drives."

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"Let us fly and save our bacon."

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"Panurge had no sooner heard this, but he was upon the high-rope."

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"You have there hit the nail on the head."

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"How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?"

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"How well I feathered my nest."

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"What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly."

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"Looking as like . . . as one pea does like another."

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"What cannot be cured must be endured."

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"Which was performed to a T."

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"We saw a knot of others, about a baker's dozen."

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"Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston."

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"We have here other fish to fry."

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"The belly has no ears, nor is it to be filled with fair words."

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"Spare your breath to cool your porridge."

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"I believe he would make three bites of a cherry."

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"Let down the curtain: the farce is done."

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"Plain as a nose in a man's face."

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"This flea which I have in mine ear."

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"You shall never want rope enough."

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"He did not care a button for it."

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"Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub."

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"Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free."

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"It is meat, drink, and cloth to us."

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"Necessity has no law."

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"Others made a virtue of necessity."

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"Send them home as merry as crickets."

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"Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth."

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"Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money."

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"Would you damn your precious soul?"

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"And so on to the end of the chapter."

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"He always looked a given horse in the mouth."

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"To return to our wethers."

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"Thought the moon was made of green cheese."

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"He laid him squat as a flounder."

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