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Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.
Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would
perish.
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would
perish.
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he
is.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he
is.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
You began better than you have finished; the last act is not
equal to the first.
You began better than you have finished; the last act is not
equal to the first.
