I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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Dine on little, and sup on less.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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Delay always breeds danger.
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Give the devil his due.
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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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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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They who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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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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