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01In print by 1905 AD

We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again.

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02In print by 1905 AD

It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.

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03In print by 1905 AD

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

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04In print by 1905 AD

Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,—they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.

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05In print by 1905 AD

Men are used as they use others.

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06In print by 1905 AD

What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.

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07In print by 1905 AD

Guilty consciences always make people cowards.

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08In print by 1905 AD

Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.

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09In print by 1905 AD

There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.

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10In print by 1905 AD

There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.

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11In print by 1905 AD

He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.

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12In print by 1905 AD

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.

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13In print by 1905 AD

That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.

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