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Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

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There is nothing useless to men of sense.

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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

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A hungry stomach cannot hear.

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I bend and do not break.

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The strongest passion is fear.

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Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

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It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

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Luck's always to blame.

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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

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People must help one another; it is nature's law.

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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

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But the shortest works are always the best.

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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

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It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

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