By God and upon my conscience", said the devil, "I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about." "This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian," said Sancho; "for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.


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'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail o...
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Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out ...
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Thou hast seen nothing yet.
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God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all h...
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A stout heart breaks bad luck
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the oth...
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Te...
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God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
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Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won he...
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture ...
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
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Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack...
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Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom ...
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wis...
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By the street of By and By, one arrives at the house of Never
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and natural...
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Fair and softly goes far.
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above wat...
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above wat...
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
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La buena y verdadera amistad no puede ni debe ser sospechosa de nada.
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Trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain.
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He who sings scares away his woes.
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as...
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it.
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
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But my thoughts ran woolgathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he wa...
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
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It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged
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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
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Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itsel...
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A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it ...
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wi...
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
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Honesty's the best policy
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
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As much is lost by a card too many as a card too few
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye
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If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards.
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Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.
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There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other...
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The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied ...
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Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
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One man is no more than another if he does no more than another
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Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
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The sage left nothing in his ink-horn.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness...
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For if he like a madman lived, at least he like a wise one died.
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Oh, sir, sir, there are more tricks done in the village than make a noise - saving her ladyship's pr...
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You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
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He has an oar in every man's boat and a finger in every pie
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The Knight of the Sad Countenance.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage lose...
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Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revi...
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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
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'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
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My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''there were but two families in the world, have-much and ha...
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Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
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El ver mucho y leer mucho aviva los ingenios de los hombres.
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Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juic...
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Time ripens all thing. No man is born wise.
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He who sings frightens away his ills.
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There is a strange charm in the hope of a good legacy that wonderfully reduces the sorrow people oth...
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Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at th...
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Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another;...
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When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
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Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
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Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
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I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
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All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not ca...
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I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but...
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