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Honesty's the best policy.
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time.
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.
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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned books, just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.
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To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
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Little said is soon amended.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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For hope is always born at the same time as love.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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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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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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There's no love lost between us.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Good Christians should never avenge injuries.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
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