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

Jean de La Fontaine

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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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