Seventeenth-century English Proverb

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“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
—18th-century English proverb.

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

“The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)