"It pays to be prepared."
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"A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear."
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"It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards."
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"I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath."
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"Zeal should not outrun discretion."
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"The strong and the weak cannot keep company."
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"Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails."
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"A false tale often betrays itself."
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"Little friends may prove great friends."
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"Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it."
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"Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune."
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"Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion."
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"Good things come in small packages."
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"It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray."
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"Conceit may bring about one's own downfall."
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"Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school: United we stand; divided we fall."
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"The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings."
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"A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone"."
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"Kindness is more persuasive than force."
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"In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest."
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