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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 into.

All that glisters is not gold.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

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

All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface."

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

All sorrows are good with bread.

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.