Cats know not how to pardon.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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The worst time is always the present.
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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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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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In this world we must help one another.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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One returns to the place one came from.
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