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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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Think before thou speakest.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
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How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
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The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.
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Health and cheerfulness make beauty.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.
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There are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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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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We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
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The wicked are always ungrateful.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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The absent feel and fear every ill.
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
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