I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESBe brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.
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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
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Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
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Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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