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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
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When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.
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Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.
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A man growing old becomes a child again.
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Silence gives the proper grace to women
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
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To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
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