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Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida...
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With life many things are remedied. (While there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Con la vida mucha...
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My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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Soul of fibre and heart of oak. [Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saav...
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. [Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien p...
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I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I s...
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and w...
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Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
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All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]
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Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
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Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not...
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Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla...
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Within a stone's throw of it.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. [Sp., Las necedades del rico por se...
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son m...
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Fear has many eyes. [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]
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He had a face like a benediction (blessing).
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In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.]
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Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hace...
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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He who sings frightens away his ills. [Sp., Quien canta, sus males espanta.]
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]
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The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that if gets broken). [Sp., Tantas veces va el cantaril...
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To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]
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When you are at Rome, do as you see. [Sp., Cuando a Roma fueres, haz como vieres.]
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There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine. [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
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As ill-luck would have it.
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He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to bet...
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
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God helps everyone with what is his own. [Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.]
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One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
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More knave than fool.
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Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. [Sp., Mas acompanados y panigu...
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
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I have other fish to fry.
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But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while h...
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly so...
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One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]
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The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.
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Make hay while the sun shines.
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Thank you for nothing.
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Earned with the sweat of my brows.
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The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de s...
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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This peck of troubles.
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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man fo...
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My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thought...
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Can one desire too much of a good thing?
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no ...
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]
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You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can ...
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All that glisters is not gold.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging the...
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That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
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The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I...
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Delay always heeds danger.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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Too much sanity may be madness
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The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce
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Jests that give pains are no jests
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There's a remedy for everything except death
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
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He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand
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Absence, that common cure of love.
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He who sings scares away his woes
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I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony...
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unre...
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Love not what you are, but what you may become.
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I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.
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Limpias, pues, sus armas, hecho del morrión celada, puesto nombre a su rocín y confirmándose a s�...
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the ...
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...if the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is...
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By God and upon my conscience", said the devil, "I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with s...
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Bear in mind, Sancho, that one man is no more than another, unless he does more than another.
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After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of ...
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Hasta la muerte, todo es vida.
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I don't see what my arse has to do with enchantings!
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I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than ha...
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There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
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All the physicians and authors in the world could not give a clear account of his madness. He is mad...
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, di...
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'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
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Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out ...
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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all h...
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A stout heart breaks bad luck
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the oth...
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Te...
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won he...
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture ...
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack...
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Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom ...
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wis...
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By the street of By and By, one arrives at the house of Never
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and natural...
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Fair and softly goes far.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above wat...
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above wat...
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
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La buena y verdadera amistad no puede ni debe ser sospechosa de nada.
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Trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain.
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He who sings scares away his woes.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as...
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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But my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he wa...
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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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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It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged
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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
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Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itsel...
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it ...
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wi...
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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Honesty's the best policy
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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As much is lost by a card too many as a card too few
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye
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If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards.
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Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.
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There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other...
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The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied ...
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Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
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One man is no more than another if he does no more than another
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Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
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The sage left nothing in his ink-horn.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness...
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For if he like a madman lived, at least he like a wise one died.
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Oh, sir, sir, there are more tricks done in the village than make a noise - saving her ladyship's pr...
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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He has an oar in every man's boat and a finger in every pie
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The Knight of the Sad Countenance.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage lose...
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Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revi...
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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
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'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''there were but two families in the world, have-much and ha...
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juic...
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Time ripens all thing. No man is born wise.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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There is a strange charm in the hope of a good legacy that wonderfully reduces the sorrow people oth...
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Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at th...
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Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another;...
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not ca...
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I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but...
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El ver mucho y leer mucho aviva los ingenios de los hombres.

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