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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.

Jean de La Fontaine

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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Fear Haunt Hell Pleasure
Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Friendship Literature Lying
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Father Fools Satisfaction World
Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Animal Mouth Tail Woman
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Race Start Time Win
In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Blame One Liner
People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Help Law Nature People
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Satisfaction Unfortunate
We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Desire Easy Fear
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Grace Talent
As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Face Repair Ruin
In everything we ought to look at the end.
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End Future Work
Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Different Grand Stage Universe

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