By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery 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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The worst time is always the present.
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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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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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