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Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

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The eyes those silent tongues of love.

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Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

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Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

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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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

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He preaches well that lives well.

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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

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Jests that give pains are no jests.

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True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

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He had a face like a blessing.

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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

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