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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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
185
Never sign a paper you have not read, nor drink water you have not
examined.
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No two persons are ever more confidential and cordial than when they are
censuring a third.
187
There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.
--_Bovee._
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Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding--that civility is best which
excludes all superfluous formality.
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The only sure things are those that have already happened.
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