The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing 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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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The worst time is always the present.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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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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The sign brings customers.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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