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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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Many littles make a much.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
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When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.
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The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
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Blessings on him, who invented sleep.
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
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For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
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Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
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The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
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Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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