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Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
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Noble fathers have noble children.
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It is change; all yields its place and goes.
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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
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The language of truth is simple.
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When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
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I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
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To generous souls every task is noble.
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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience.
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That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
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Authority is never without hate.
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Youth holds no society with grief.
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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
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Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
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Prosperity is full of friends.
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Better a serpent than a stepmother!
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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
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Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
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Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
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One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
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Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
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Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
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New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
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The bold are helpless without cleverness.
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
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Do not consider painful what is good for you.
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There is the sky, which is all men's together.
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