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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Hold Love Prudent
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Fools Imitation Myself Opinion
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
Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Greatness Small Suffering
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Evil Journal Oneself Tribute
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Blind Fortune Pursue Rash
A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Different Grand Stage Universe
O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Dominate Ourselves Prudence
In everything we ought to look at the end.
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End Future Work
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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Future Possession Value Worth
Still people are dangerous.
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Dangerous One Liner People
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Difficult Known Myself Regard Secret Woman
But the shortest works are always the best.
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Best Short Work
One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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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

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