"He who reforms, God assists."
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"He that gives quickly gives twice."
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"Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die."
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"Behind the cross is the devil."
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"A shy face is better than a forward heart."
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"Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown."
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"Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up."
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""He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand.""
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"I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections."
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"Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd."
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"Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse."
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"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox."
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"One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged."
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"My thoughts ran a wool-gathering."
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"Every one in his own house and God in all of them."
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"For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God."
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"I am almost frightened out of my seven senses."
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"All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights."
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"Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper."
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"Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed."
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