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Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

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I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
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Believe Complete Fools Life Man Ordinary School Young
Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
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Distance Equality Heaven
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
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Creature Food Hope
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
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Counseling Mindset
Everyone will find what he’s looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Pleasure Rose
Women are one and all a set of vultures.
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Oneself Vulture Women
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
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Esteem Himself Worth Yourself
The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
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Allow Betrayal World
One good turn deserves another.
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Deserve Goodness Turn
Nothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
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Conception False Moral People
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
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Believe Business Man
The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
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Favor Hardship
The mind longs for what it has missed.
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Mindset Missing
While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.
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Face Fortune Friendship
Can’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb
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Advice Beg Dumb See Yourself
It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
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Deep Fear God Philosophy World

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

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