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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. - [Food] Acquaintance softens prejudice. - [Acquaintances] Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. - [Prudence] Any excuse will serve a tyrant. - [Excuses] Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy. - [Anarchy] Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. - [Contentment] Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. - [Misfortune] Better to starve free than be a fat slave. - [Freedom] Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. - [Illusion] Enemies' promises were made to be broken. - [Promises] Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion. - [Insult] I will have naught to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. - [Inconsistency] If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs. - [Gullibility] Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. - [Injury] It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. - [Apparel] It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. - [Passion] Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. - [Endurance] Much outcry, little outcome. - [Noise] No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - [Kindness] Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. - [Pretension] Slow but steady wins the race. - [Slowness] The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. - [Injury] The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. - [Imagination] Vices are their own punishment. - [Vice] We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - [Thieving] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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