O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA 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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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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In this world we must help one another.
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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