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Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“It is better to be
An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng.”
It is better to be
An old man's darling than a young man's warling.
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546)
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