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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Greatness Small Suffering
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Destiny Evil Goodness Right Wrong
Cats know not how to pardon.
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Cat Forgiveness Known One Liner
No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Cat Gratitude Win
Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Animal Kill Oneself Skin
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Cry Herself Love Tears Victory Virtue
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Oneself Return Sin
A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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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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Death Learning Open Return Trait Window
We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Perception See
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Better Death Suffering
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Argument Best Strong
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Cost Flattery Learning Listening Live
Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Finding One Liner Perspective Sensible

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