This life at best is but an inn, And we the passengers.
About James Howell
James Howellwas a Welsh writer and historian. The son of a Welsh clergyman, he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Howell, who became Lord Bishop of Bristol.
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Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.
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Respect a man, he will do it the more.
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This life at best is but an inn, And we the passengers.
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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
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All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
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Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
Anglo-Welsh historian and writer