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He knows the roads by which he has escaped before.
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He labors vainly, who endeavors to please every person.
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He labours in vain who attempts to please everybody.
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He makes a lion of a mouse.
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He makes idle boasting.
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He moistens the lips, but leaves the palate dry. [Trifling
assistance, of little or no use. ]
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He opens the theatre, and immediately closes it. [He raises
expectation, and crushes it at the same time.]
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He ploughs the land of others, and leaves his own untilled.
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He prepares evil for himself who plots mischief for others.
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He puts up with small annoyances to gain great results.
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He rises early that is hanged before noon.
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He says what is wholly irrelevant.
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He seeks renown by public applause.
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He seeks to live like a parasite. [He wants to sponge upon
somebody.]
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He shaves close to the skin.
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He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.
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He sings his own praises.
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He spends the happiest life who knows nothing.
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He suffers from the same disease. [He is in the same
difficulty.]
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He suffocates me with kindness.
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He talks to a dead man.
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He talks to the wind.
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He tells a tale of a tub.
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He tells me my way, and knows not his own.
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He that flies may fight another day.
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He that follows freits, freits will follow him.
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He that gapeth until he be fed,
Well may he gape until he is dead.
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He that gives bad counsel suffers most by it.
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He that gives time to resolve, gives time to deny, and warning to
prevent.
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He that has been hurt, fears.
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He thinks nothing right, but what he does himself.
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He took care to enjoy himself as long as life lasted. [N.B. A
good epitaph for an alderman.]
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He travels fastest who travels alone.
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He unravels the enigmas of the Sphinx.
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He utters in his language something different from what he
ponders in his mind.
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He who blows his nose too hard makes it bleed.
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He who cannot conceal his sentiments, knows not how to live.
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He who cannot do what he wishes, must needs do as he can.
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He who cannot even manage a yacht asks for a ship of burthen!
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He who does not advance recedes.
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He who does not fully speak the truth is a traitor to it.
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He who does not speak the whole truth is a traitor to truth.
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He who endures with patience is a conqueror.
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He who envies his admits his inferiority.
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He who fears every bramble should not go to the woods.
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He who follows two hares loses both.
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He who has come to the mill first does not grind last.
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He who has once used deception will deceive again.
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He who has plenty of pepper may season his food as he likes.
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He who has received a kindness forgets it; he who has been
injured remembers it. [To benefit one and injure another at the
same time is a losing game, for revenge is a stronger feeling
than gratitude.]
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