We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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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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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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