Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESMy heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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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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Comparisons are odious.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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Beware, gentle knight – the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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Think before thou speakest.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?
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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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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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It is good to live and learn.
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It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
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Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Many littles make a much.
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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