An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEO love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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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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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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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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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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