"My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain."
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"Troubles take wing for the man who can sing."
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"Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning."
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"There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently."
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"Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try."
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"There is no proverb that is not true."
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"Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear."
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"All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst."
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"For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died."
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"For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen."
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"Get out of harms way."
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"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."
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"They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling."
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"The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts."
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"What is bought is cheaper than a gift."
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"Health and cheerfulness make beauty"
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"It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up."
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"Little said is soon amended."
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"Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone."
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"I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view."
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