here be said save that even in poor cottages there rain down divine spirits from heaven, like as in princely palaces there be those who were worthier to tend swine than to have lordship over men.

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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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The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast.

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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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Do as we say, and not as we do.

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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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Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

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No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

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

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