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• Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars. -- Serbian proverb
• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid.
  She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well...
• There's no thief like a bad book. -- Italian Proverb
• Abundance, like want, ruins many. Romanian Proverb
• A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Chinese Proverb
• There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich. French Proverb
• Live together like brothers and do business like strangers. Arab Proverb
• A recent moralist has affirmed that the human heart is like a jug.
  No mortal can look into its recesses, and you can only judge of its purity by what comes out of it....
• When I have one foot in the grave I will tell the truth about women.
  I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me, and say, "Do what you like now....