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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Blow Change Himself Way
The strongest passion is fear.
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Fear One Liner Passion Strong
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
Still people are dangerous.
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Dangerous One Liner People
We risk all in being too greedy.
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Greedy One Liner Risk
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Choice Different Leadership Path Road
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Devil Pay Tribute
Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Dangerous Fast Stick
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Cost Flattery Learning Listening Live
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Oneself Return Sin
Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Devil Harvest Religious
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Ear Moderate Ourselves Ring
I bend but do not break.
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Break Flexible Myself
We are never content with our lot.
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Ourselves Satisfaction
Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Habit Slave

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