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“Things were first made, then words.”
-- Thomas Overbury

#Firsts #Made
“Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.”
-- Thomas Overbury

#Women #Two #Frail
“A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.”
-- Thomas Overbury

#Shadow #Fool #Flattery
“Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.”
-- Thomas Overbury

#Yield #Flames #Fire
“Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day”
-- Thomas Overbury

#Fire #Coal #Deeds
“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.”
-- Thomas Overbury

#Absence
“An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous”
-- Thomas Overbury

#Ambitious #Bees #World
“Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.”
-- Thomas Overbury

#Art #Men #Instruments
“The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.”
-- Thomas Overbury

#Food #Men #Potatoes
“Beauty is only skin deep.”
-- Thomas Overbury

#Beauty #Skins #Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

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