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A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Jean de La Fontaine

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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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Difficult Known Myself Regard Secret Woman
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Call Fools Friendship Name Rare
Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Affair Spoil
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Dangerous Meet Yourself
But the shortest works are always the best.
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Best Short Work
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Anand Thakur
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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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
By the work one knows the workman.
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Fame Identity Oneself Work
But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Anand Thakur
We are never content with our lot.
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Ourselves Satisfaction
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Brain Fashion Power Stupidity World
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Greatness Happiness Ourselves Wealth
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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Dangerous Enemy Ignorance Wisdom Worth
We risk all in being too greedy.
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Greedy One Liner Risk
A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Hear Stomach
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Father Impossible World

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