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Who, knowing nothing, claim to know it all.

What each intends, or will intend, they know.

What in the queen's ear the king said, they know.

What never was, or is--they know it, though!

--_Plautus._

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The would-be buyer, alas! so often depreciates.

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The road to "bye and bye" leads to the town of never.

--_Spanish._

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CALAMITY.

Do not insult calamity: It is a barb'rous grossness, to lay on The weight of scorn, where heavy misery Too much already weighs men's fortunes down.

--_Shakespeare._

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I can't, does nothing.

I'll try, effects miracles.

I will, accomplishes everything.

--_Unknown._

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Among the ancient warriors it was a custom, when any one did a meritorious action, to say: "That will be a feather in his cap."

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Whom the cap fits, let him wear it.

--_Latin._

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Capacity without education is deplorable.

--_Saadi._

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As to cards and dice, I think the safest and best way is never to learn to play them, and so be incapacitated for those dangerous temptations and encroaching wasters of time.

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Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

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To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

--_Haliburton._

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Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labour; and so shall thy labour sweeten thy rest.

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To win a cat, and lose a cow. (Consequences of litigation).

--_Persian._

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Deliberate well on what you can do but once.

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A life of caution is overpaid by the avoidance of one serious misfortune.

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