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Sensible people find nothing useless.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Affair Spoil
A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Anand Thakur
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Hold Love Prudent
We are never content with our lot.
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Ourselves Satisfaction
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Anand Thakur
As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Anand Thakur
Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Finding One Liner Perspective Sensible
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Butcher Oneself Stick Trade
Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Dangerous People Silence
One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Himself Inferior
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Cost Flattery Learning Listening Live
Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Animal Kill Oneself Skin
Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Habit Slave
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Dangerous Meet Yourself
The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Best Reason Strong
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Anand Thakur
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Cheerful Health Inspirational Mindset
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Avoid Destiny Himself Person Road
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Death Himself Man Ready Wisdom
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Fools Fortune Luxury Reading Surround
But the shortest works are always the best.
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Best Short Work
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Avoid Destiny Ourselves Path
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Day Future Present Time
A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Deliver Expectation Loud Mountain Noise
What God does, He does well.
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God Himself Well
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Call Fools Friendship Name Rare
In everything we ought to look at the end.
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End Future Work

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