We must take our friends as they are.
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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.
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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
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