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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
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The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.
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Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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