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Appearances are deceiving.
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We should use our judgment before coming to a decision.
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He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.
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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.
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We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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Don't put off for tomorrow what you should do today.
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Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.
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Clumsy jesting is no joke.
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The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.
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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
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Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
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Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
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Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave
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Little liberties are great offenses.
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There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
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Persuasion is better than force.
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The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.
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Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
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