"The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude."
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"Facts speak plainer than words"
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"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."
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"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
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"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."
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"I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour."
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"A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then."
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"He who shares the danger ought to share the prize."
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"There can be little liking where there is no likeness."
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"It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it."
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"If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all."
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"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another."
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"Liars often set their own traps."
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"We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance."
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"He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends."
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"Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself."
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"You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time."
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"Pride goes before destruction."
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"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
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"Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes."
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