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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAn author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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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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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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