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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Molière
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
Moliere
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
Moliere
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
Moliere
