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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there’s more reason to fear than to hope.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
I believe there’s no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Well, there’s a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.