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 Bible—a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)