Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us -- avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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