The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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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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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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What God does, He does well.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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I bend, but I do not break.
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