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| Quote #1: | "No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give." |
| Quote #2: | "Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self." |
| Quote #3: | "Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass." |
| Quote #4: | "To understand all is to forgive all." |
| Quote #5: | "He who survives will see the outcome." |
| Quote #6: | "Life is an onion and one peels it crying." |
| Quote #7: | "Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics." |
| Quote #8: | "When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach." |
| Quote #9: | "There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience." |
| Quote #10: | "He is rich who owes nothing." |
| Quote #11: | "He that does not ask will never get a bargain." |
| Quote #12: | "Everyone thinks his own burden heavy." |
| Quote #13: | "If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength." |
| Quote #14: | "Ready money works great cures." |
| Quote #15: | "One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it." |
| Quote #16: | "What was hard to endure is sweet to recall." |
| Quote #17: | "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." |
| Quote #18: | "We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it." |
| Quote #19: | "Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day." |
| Quote #20: | "Set a thief to catch a thief." |
| Quote #21: | "Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want." |
| Quote #22: | "There is no flying without wings." |
| Quote #23: | "When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it." |
| Quote #24: | "A father is a banker provided by nature." |
| Quote #25: | "With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle." |
| Quote #26: | "A white wall is the fool's paper." |
| Quote #27: | "Travellers from afar can lie with impunity." |
| Quote #28: | "Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks. (tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse)" |
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