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Try to reason about love and you will lose your reason.
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. Those who live in a glass house should not throw stones. He who can govern a woman can govern a nation. Fortune helps him who's willing to help himself. A good deed is not without reward. Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. Don't bark if you can't bite. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. Beauty and folly are often companions. Children are what they are made. Better buy than borrow. When a fool goes to Rome, the same fool returns from there. Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. The clever wife makes her husband an apron. Young men forgive, old men never. A big nose never spoiled a handsome face. He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. He cannot be a friend to any one who is his own enemy. Bad news has wings. A thing too much seen is little prized. Not every sort of wood is fit to make an arrow. When the tree is down everybody runs to the branches. Things promised are things due. The early riser is healthy, cheerful, and industrious. One hour's sleep before midnight is better than three after it. He that has not money in his purse should have honey in his mouth. Tired folks are quarrelsome. One learns by failing. He who fondles you more than usual has either deceived you, or wishes to do so. He gains enough who loses sorrow. Do not strip before bedtime. To know a man well one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him. A drowning man clings to a blade of grass.
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