A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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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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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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