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There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
He had a face like a blessing.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Modesty, is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Nor has his death the world deceived than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
He preaches well that lives well.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
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