"The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre."

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"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older."

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"There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity."

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"Saying is one thing, doing another."

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"I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have."

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"Men are most apt to believe what they least understand."

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"A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity."

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"Few men have been admired by their own domestics."

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"And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one."

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"I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together."

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"O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee!"

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"As when, O lady mine! With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould. The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows."

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"Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?"

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"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all."

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"I will take my corporal oath on it."

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"Let every man look before he leaps."

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"Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I 'll stick."

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"Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun."

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"The pot calls the kettle black."

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"Fair and softly goes far."

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"Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity."

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"When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made."

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"You are come off now with a whole skin."

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"Let us make hay while the sun shines."

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"Bell, book, and candle."

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"As ill-luck would have it."

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"Let the worst come to the worst."

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"Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle."

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"In the night all cats are gray."

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"The more thou stir it, the worse it will be."

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"Let every man mind his own business."

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"Thank you for nothing."

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"I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days."

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"But all in good time."

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"You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to."

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"The pen is the tongue of the mind."

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"What a man has, so much he is sure of."

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"And had a face like a blessing."

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"Honesty is the best policy."

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"He is as mad as a March hare."

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"You are taking the wrong sow by the ear."

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"It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket."

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"I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff."

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"You may as well expect pears from an elm."

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"A close mouth catches no flies."

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"A good name is better than riches."

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"He is as like one, as one egg is like another."

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"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

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"There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters."

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"Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies."

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