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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.

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We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction.

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In union there is strength.

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Little by little does the trick.

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Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

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The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.

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Obscurity brings safety.

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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

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A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

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Example is the best precept.

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There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

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Enemies promises were made to be broken.

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He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.

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Appearances are deceptive.

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

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You may share the labours of the great, but you may not share the spoil.

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While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

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What a splendid head, yet no brain.

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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

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We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

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Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.

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There is always someone worse off than yourself.

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