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“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
—18th century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“The difference is wide that the sheets will not decide.”
—English proverb, collected in John Ray, English Proverbs (1670)
“How can kindliness rule that man
Who eateth other flesh to increase his own?”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)
“The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)