When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.


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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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Let justice be done, though the world perish.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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If we still advise we shall never do.
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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
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The word must is not to be used to princes.
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The end crowneth the work.
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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
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One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
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God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at lea...
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God forgive you, but I never can.
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The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
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I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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All my possessions for a moment of time.
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Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
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