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17 May 2025, 11:15 am

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17 May 2025, 11:33 am

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A fool and his money are easily parted


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17 May 2025, 11:47 am

pretend a pig to eat a tiger ，keep silent to make a fortune


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17 May 2025, 11:51 am

Might as well hang for a sheep as for a lamb


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17 May 2025, 1:44 pm

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17 May 2025, 1:45 pm

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17 May 2025, 2:29 pm

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17 May 2025, 2:34 pm

I like the one about a little man dressed in brief authority but I think it's Shakespeare and I don't think it's a proverb but I sort of can see it in life

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But man, proud man,
Dress'd in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd—
His glassy essence—like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal.

Shakespeare quote


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17 May 2025, 2:39 pm

Great minds think alike - fools seldom differ.


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17 May 2025, 2:40 pm

They have like a bouncy little thing going on with them these proverbs don't they


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17 May 2025, 3:02 pm

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17 May 2025, 3:03 pm

babybird wrote:
I like the one about a little man dressed in brief authority but I think it's Shakespeare and I don't think it's a proverb but I sort of can see it in life

Here it is:

But man, proud man,
Dress'd in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd—
His glassy essence—like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal.

Shakespeare quote

I think I figured that out as far as spleens, then I got confused. Shakespeare can be a bit WTF at times can't he? But he started it off clear enough. There should be a New English translation like there is for people who can't understand the King James Bible.



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17 May 2025, 3:03 pm

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17 May 2025, 3:06 pm

I understand very little of shakespeare but I heard that many years ago and I sort of got it on some level


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17 May 2025, 4:30 pm

"There are two blessings that many people are deceived into losing: health and free time."


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17 May 2025, 4:56 pm

What's the one about inheriting the earth

I like that one


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