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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Bidpai.
 
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    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.
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    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.
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    There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. 3
          The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi.
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    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.
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    Men are used as they use others.
          The King who became Just. Fable ix.
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    What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. 4
          The Two Fishermen. Fable xiv.
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    Guilty consciences always make people cowards. 5
          The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii.
 
Note 1.
And with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.—Matthew vii. 2. [back]
Note 2.
See Heywood, Quotation 91. [back]
Note 3.
See Herrick, Quotation 17. [back]
Note 4.
See Heywood, Quotation 122. [back]
Note 5.
See Shakespeare, Hamlet, Quotation 109. [back]