"A man is known by the company he keeps."
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"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."
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"Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear."
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"All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack."
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"Please all, and you will please none."
― Aesop
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"No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward."
― Aesop
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"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."
― Aesop
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"Self-help is the best help."
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"convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain."
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"If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself."
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"After all is said and done, more is said than done."
― Aesop |
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
― Aesop
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"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."
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"The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns? "
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"Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay."
― Aesop
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"No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward."
― Aesop
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"Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others."
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"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others."
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