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When our incense falls shot, we offer salt cakes.

It is wrong even to complain of him whom you love.

He whom public opinion has once degraded, rarely recovers his former standing.

If you delight in the society of the vicious, you are vicious yourself.

He who can best play the hypocrite, can soonest injure his enemy.

How shall we treat with those who say one thing, and mean another?

Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many more.

The debtor does not like the sight of his creditor's door.

He who yields a prudent obedience, exercises a partial control.

He makes many offenders, who is reluctant to punish.

He lessens the favor conferred, who waits to be asked.

He is suspected on all matters, who makes a failure in one.

He who hesitates to take the right course, deliberates to no purpose.

A slave against his will is wretched, but none the less a slave.