"Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds."
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"All sorrows are less with bread."
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"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
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"History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future."
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"Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes."
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"There's no sauce in the world like hunger."
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"We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain."
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"Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep."
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"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
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"The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach."
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"Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds."
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"I'll turn over a new leaf."
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"You cannot eat your cake and have your cake."
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"Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even."
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"Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves."
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"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."
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"There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman."
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"A closed mouth catches no flies."
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"Comparisons are odious."
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"Great expectations are better than a poor possession."
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