We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing weighs more than a secret.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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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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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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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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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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