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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe risk all in being too greedy.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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In this world we must help one another.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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