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Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more...
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Where there is a sea there are pirates.
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People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who...
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with...
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Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
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Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
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‘I wish life was not so short,’ he thought. ‘Languages take such a time,...
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No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for...