"Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary."

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“Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?”

“The better day, the better deed.”

“A little too wise, they say, do ne’er live long.”

“As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet.”

“Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes.”

“’Tis slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.”

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