"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."
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"It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him."
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"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
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"Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it."
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"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly."
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"Experience is the universal mother of sciences."
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"Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish."
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"Seek for good, but expect evil."
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"To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea."
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"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."
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"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment."
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"The ass bears the load, but not the overload."
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"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
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"I have other fish to fry."
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"He had a face like a blessing."
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"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind."
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"There's no love lost between us."
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"Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?"
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"You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne."
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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
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