| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | 8413 | | We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again. 1 |
| Dabschelim and Pilpay. Chap. i. |
| 8414 | | It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one. 2 |
| The Greedy and Ambitious Cat. Fable iii. |
| 8415 | | There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. 3 |
| The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi. |
| 8416 | | Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,—they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets. |
| The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi. |
| 8417 | | Men are used as they use others. |
| The King who became Just. Fable ix. |
| 8418 | | What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. 4 |
| The Two Fishermen. Fable xiv. |
| 8419 | | Guilty consciences always make people cowards. 5 |
| The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii. |
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