Do as we say, and not as we do.

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Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.

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In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

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They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell.

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Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.

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You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

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La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.

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Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.

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Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.

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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

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