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"No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."

"Don't break the rules when you haven't fully figured them out yet."

"To be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer."

"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway."

"No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him."

"We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips."
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"A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted and who has many responsibilities."

"Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame."

"Reproach is infinite, and knows no endSo voluble a weapon is the tongue;Wounded, we wound; and neither side can failFor every man has equal strength to rail."

"There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."

"To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
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