No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBy the work one knows the workman.
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In this world we must help one another.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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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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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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