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• Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
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• Facts are stubborn things. -- Alain Rene Le Sage (1668-1747) -- Gil Blas, Book x, Chap. i
• Plain as a pike-staff. -- Alain Rene Le Sage (1668-1747) -- Gil Blas, Book xii, Chap. viii
• I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.
  -- Alain Rene Le Sage (1668-1747) -- Gil Blas, Book vii, Chap. iv...
• Facts are stubborn things. -- Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) -- Translation of Gil Blas, Book x, Chap.
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• Let us make hay while the sun shines. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap.
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• Little said is soonest mended. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap.
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• Napoleon's troops fought in bright fields, where every helmet caught some gleams of glory
  but the British soldier conquered under the cool shade of aristocracy....
• She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap. xi...