There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

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Many count their chickens before they are hatched and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

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