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“He that would the daughter win
Must with the mother first begin.”
—17th-century English proverb, collected in J. Ray, English Proverbs (1670)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“I framed to the harp
Many an English ditty lovely well.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Fast bind, fast find,
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)