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Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
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Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.
It is better to pay and have a little left than to have much and be always in debt.
The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge.
It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
Constant dripping wears away stone.
A whistling girl and a crowing hen never came to a good end.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
A dog returns to where he has been fed.
Absence cools moderate passions but inflames violent ones.
A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
If you don’t know what to do, don’t do anything.
Dirt is dirtiest upon the fairest spot.
Do a good deed every day.
Do what you ought, come what may.
Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Don’t drown yourself to save a drowning man.
He who boasts of his descent is like a potato: the best part is underground.
Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works.
A fool can ask more questions in a minute than a wise man can answer in an hour.
A good surgeon must have an eagle’s eye, a lion’s heart, and a lady’s hand.
A thorn of experience is worth a wilderness of advice.
The loudest bell does not always have the sweetest tone.
The more acquaintances, the more danger.
The mountains are never so far apart but the animals find one another.
Darkness is the owl’s desire.
The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines.
Faith is that quality which enables us to believe what we know to be at least far out.
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