An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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