One returns to the place one came from.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOne often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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