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maximSaying or proverb that gives moral guidance or a piece of advice on the way to live (‘First come, first served’; ‘Better late than never’). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Come, if one can't always eat, one can always drink -- a maxim of poor Athos, the truth of which I have discovered since I began to be lonely. Tis a maxim tremendous, but trite: And you'd best be unpacking the things that you need To rig yourselves out for the fight. Meanwhile, he cast his eyes over that unfortunate city, which contained so much deep misery and so many heroic virtues, and recalling the saying of Louis XI, his political predecessor, as he himself was the predecessor of Robespierre, he repeated this maxim of Tristan's gossip: "Divide in order to reign. |
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