Quote #95
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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- Amistades que son ciertas nadie las puede turbar.
- I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
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- In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.
- El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.