"No man is more than another unless he does more than another."
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"That which costs little is less valued."
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"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope."
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"Dine on little, and sup on less."
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"Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good."
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"You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff."
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"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be."
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"Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose."
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"For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing."
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"But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back."
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"Thank you for nothing."
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"Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times."
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"Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse."
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"He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay."
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"Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured."
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"The road to the inn is much better than the stay."
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"Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool."
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"All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections."
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"A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity."
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"When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there."
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