Say only alittle but say it well. Three candles dispel the darkness; truth, knowledge and the ways of nature. A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. A man without a smiling face must not open shop. A murder may be forgiven, an affront never. If luck comes, who comes not? If luck comes not, who comes? It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing. Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose. A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm. A penny saved is a penny gained. Better keep the devil at the door than turn him out of the house. A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance. To conquer others is to have power,to conquer yourself is to know the way. It is in the heat of the fire where the angel is found. As long as we have breath we have life.
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