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He who dares danger, triumphs over it before it reaches him.

He who exercises clemency gains a victory for all time.

No one can long sustain a false character.

He invites danger who indulges in anger.

He who has plenty of pepper, will pepper his cabbage.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please every body.

Friends delight in the dishes which cordiality seasons.

Most men are good through fear, not through a love of goodness.

God generally finds a way for like to meet like.

Fortune shields more people than she secures.

Harken rather to your conscience than to opinion.

It is easier to submit to punishment than to injustice.

To live in misery and destitution is worse than punishment.

Slander is a greater outrage than personal viole