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In the night all cats are gray.
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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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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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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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When in doubt, lean to the side of mercy.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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Fair and softly goes far.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.
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Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
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It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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I have other fish to fry.
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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The eyes those silent tongues of love.
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