Seventeenth-century English Proverb

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“‘Tis money that begets money.”
—English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

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

“I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)