Seventeenth-century English Proverb

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“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
—17th-century English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

“A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”
—Seventeenth-century English saying.

“The English like eccentrics. They just don’t like them living next door.”
—Julian Clary (b. 1959)

“It is yours,
And might we lay th’old proverb to your charge,
So like you, ‘tis the worse.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)