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Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.


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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.



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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.



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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.



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