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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so muc...
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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 co...
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of scienc...
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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; all'...
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Every man is the son of his own works.
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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To be prepared is half the victory.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Miracle me no miracles.
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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
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Fair and softly goes far.
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Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
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A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
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