In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.Aesop
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Kindness effects more than severity.
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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
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In union there is strength. 'Union gives strength' is the version in The Fables of Aesop, ed. Joseph Jacobs, p. 87 (1964).
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The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.
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