Quote#Wisdom
An housbande can not well thryue by his come without he haue other…
Quote byAnthony Fitzherbert · 1470–1538
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The book of the husbandry (1523/1882), p. 42; Cited in footnote of Varro's Rerum Rusticarum Libri Tres, A Virginia farmer (translator) (1913). p. 85..
English (original)
An housbande can not well thryue by his come without he haue other cattell, nor by his cattell without come. For els he shall be a byer, a borrower or a beggar.
— Anthony Fitzherbert
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