An act, by which we make one friend, and one enemy, is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude.
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All the world practices the art of acting.
—Petronius Arbiter.
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Do what you can, when you cannot do what you would.
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A good action performed in this world receives its recompense in the other, just as water poured at the root of a tree appears again above in fruit and flower.
