Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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