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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
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It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.
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He who gives early gives twice.
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There is no proverb that is not true.
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Comparisons are odious.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.
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Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
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