Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESRiches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
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Comparisons are odious.
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For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
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Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.
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Beware, gentle knight – the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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