Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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I bend but do not break.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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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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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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