“4545. The Fox may grow grey, but never good.”

— Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : Many Foxes grow grey, but few grow good.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

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“4545. The Fox may grow grey, but never good.”

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