"Treason pleases, but not the traitor."
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"An honest man's word is as good as his bond."
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"Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond."
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"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it."
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"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."
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"For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences."
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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."
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"Fair and softly goes far."
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"Many littles make a much."
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"Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles."
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"Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths."
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"It is good to live and learn."
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"Hunger is the best sauce in the world."
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"Too much sanity may be madness!"
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"My honor is dearer to me than my life."
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"Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master."
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"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."
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"By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself."
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"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."
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"Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race."
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