"If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself."
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
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"There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues."
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"Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome."
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"Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing."
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"He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end."
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"Don't make much ado about nothing."
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"once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet."
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"Familiarity breeds contempt."
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"Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg."
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"Slow but steady wins the race."
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"After the rain cometh the fair weather."
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"Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool"
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"The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful."
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"It is possible to have too much of a good thing."
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"What a splendid head, yet no brain."
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"Only cowards insult dying majesty."
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"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing."
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"Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature"
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"What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh."
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