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• The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

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  Blessing, Mind, Next

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• By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

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  Procrastination, Delay, Whole Life

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.400

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• Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

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  Men, Brain, Minerva

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• Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

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  Pain, Lying, Grief

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• There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

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  Perseverance, May, Gains

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• A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

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  Two, Scandal, Applause

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• Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

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  Pushing, Insatiable, Pushing On

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• He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

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  Anger, Degrees, Doe

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.455

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• The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

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  Strong, Soil, Sun

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• Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

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  Peace, Justice, Common

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.154

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• He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

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  Hands, Envy, Ink

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• What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.

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  Men, Doe, Want

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• Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.

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  Character, Exercise, Thinking

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• Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

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  Ambition, Advice, Deaf

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.239

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• There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must.

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  Liberty, Should, Submit

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• Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

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  Law, Names, Letters

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• All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

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  Matter, Restriction, Force

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• He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

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  Happiness, Principles, May

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.147

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• What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

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  Prayer, Heart, Mean

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.261

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• Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

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  Men, Ingratitude

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• Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

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  Parent, Fool, Danger

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• There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

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  Reason, Force, Brutal

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.252

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• Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

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  Stars, Astrology, Kingdoms

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• Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

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  Men, Looks, Way

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• It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

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  Men, Mortification, Bores

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