Still people are dangerous.
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Anand Thakur
Still people are dangerous.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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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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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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