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"Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish."

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."

"Fortune and love favor the brave."
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"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

"Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish."

"An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand."

"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."

"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow."

"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality."

"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."

"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."

"The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean."

"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish."

"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

"There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled."

"What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless."

"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."

"First appearance deceives many."

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