The course of true anything does not run smooth.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

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