Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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