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

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

Guilty consciences always make people cowards.

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.

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.

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

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.

Men are used as they use others.

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.

'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.

That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.

Exclusive property is a theft against nature.

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

He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.

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

'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.