Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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