Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENever sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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In this world we must help one another.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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The sign brings customers.
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I bend and do not break.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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