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Bidpai. (continued)

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Whoever … prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.

Ibid.

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There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.

A Religious Doctor. Fable vi.

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There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.

The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii.

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He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. 1

The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii.

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Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.

Choice of Friends. Chap. iv.

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That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. 2

The Cat and the two Birds. Chap. v. Fable iv.

Hesiod. (fl. 8th cent.? B.C.)

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We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.

The Theogony. Line 27.

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On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, 3 and from his lips drop gentle words.

The Theogony. Line 82.

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