The worst time is always the present.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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It 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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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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