Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTESA proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.
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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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To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
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Seek for good, but expect evil.
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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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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Think before thou speakest.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
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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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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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Comparisons are odious.
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A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
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The wicked are always ungrateful.
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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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Give the devil his due.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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