"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."
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"Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts."
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"The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious."
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"Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes."
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"Let us not throw the rope after the bucket."
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"When you are at Rome, do as you see."
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"All is not gold that glisters."
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"A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond."
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"If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne."
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"Delay always heeds danger."
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"It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity."
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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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"In the night all cats are gray."
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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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"There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters."
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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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"Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice."
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"Honesty's the best policy."
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"There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences."
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"Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak."
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