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• A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

  Thomas Fuller

  Lying, Wings, Gossip

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• Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Thyself

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• A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Humor, Trials

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• Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

  Thomas Fuller

  Smile, Class, Diversity

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• Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

  Thomas Fuller

  Memories, Heart, Mind

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• Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

  Thomas Fuller

  Compliments You, Cost, Pay

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• Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

  Thomas Fuller

  Play, Criminal Mind, Foxes

  "Fictional character: Jason Gideon". "Criminal Minds". Season 1, Episode 7: "The Fox", www.imdb.com. November 09, 2005.

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• First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wife, Firsts, Conquest

  Thomas Fuller (1815). “An introduction to prudence”, p.30

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• He that travels much knows much.

  Thomas Fuller

  Knows

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• Eaten bread is forgotten.

  Thomas Fuller

  Thankfulness, Bread, Forgotten

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• The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

  Thomas Fuller

  Welcome, Port, Passages

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• Better a tooth out than always aching.

  Thomas Fuller

  Teeth

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• Despair gives courage to a coward.

  Thomas Fuller

  Courage, Giving, Despair

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• Bad excuses are worse than none.

  Thomas Fuller

  Motivation, Failure, Apology

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• Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

  Thomas Fuller

  Memories, House, Mind

  Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.140

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• The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

  Thomas Fuller

  Lying, Devil, Brooding

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• You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.

  Thomas Fuller

  Moon, Gutters

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• Good clothes open all doors.

  Thomas Fuller

  Fashion, Thinking, Doors

  1732 Gnomologia, no.1705.

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• He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

  Thomas Fuller

  Eye, Power

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• A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Running, Drinking

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• We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

  Thomas Fuller

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Sincerity

  "Heretics". Book by G. K. Chesterton, chapter V: "Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants", 1905.

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• Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

  Thomas Fuller

  Confidence, Military, Ironic

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• Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

  Thomas Fuller

  Husband, Men, Married

  Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.172

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• Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

  Thomas Fuller

  Humble, Humility, Pride

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• Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

  Thomas Fuller

  Men, Differences, Sin

  Thomas Fuller (1812). “The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience”, p.31

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