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Least said soonest mended.

Love is better than spectacles to make everything seem great.-Sir P. Sidney.

I have that within which passeth show.

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Let all things have their places. Marriage is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.-Dr. S. Johnson.

Inconstancy is the sign of a weak

mind.

Oat-like Soft Grass. (No. 2.)

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Let byegones be byegones.

The mind and memory are more sharply exercised in comprehending another man's things than one's own. -Ben Jonson.

Industry is never unfruitful.

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Let sleeping dogs lie.

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Let them laugh who win.

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Let your purse be your master.

Yellow Oat Grass. (No. 2.)

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Let well alone.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.-Cicero.

I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

Hard Sea

Grass. (No. 2.)

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The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato; the only good belonging to him is underground.-Sir T. Overbury.

In order to learn we must attend.

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Life is sweet.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.-Colton.

It is an ill wind that blows nobody

good.

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Lightly come, lightly go.

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Light suppers make long lives.

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Like author, like book.

Oat-like Soft Grass. (No. 3.)

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Like draws to like.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.—Swift.

It is better to be brief than tedious.

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Like father, like son.

There is more danger in a reserved and silent friend than in a noisy bab. bling enemy.-L'Estrange.

It is a long lane that has no turning.

Wall Barley

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Like master, like man.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.-South.

It is good to begin well, but better to end well.

Grass.

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