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He that high growth on cedars did bestow, / Gave also lowly mushrooms leave to grow.

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Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 8106. Printed attribution: R. Southwell. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not.

Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 28305. Printed attribution: Ecclus. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 265. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_265

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Those are wise who learn caution from their own experience; but those are wiser who learn it from the experience of others.

Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 220. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_220

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