"Necessity urges desperate measures."
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"She who desires to see, desires also to be seen."
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"My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name."
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"Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts."
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"When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain."
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"There is nothing costs less than civility."
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"One swallow alone does not make a summer."
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"I shall be as secret as the grave."
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"Wine taken in moderation never does any harm."
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"Whoever is ignorant is vulgar."
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"A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket."
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"But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand."
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"All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle."
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"Let every man look before he leaps."
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"To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite."
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"One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves."
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"Take away the motive, and you take away the sin."
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"The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt."
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"True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness."
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"Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable."
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