Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Anand Thakur
Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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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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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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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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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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