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On a day when you can dine on dry bread in your own house, do not seek to eat tender peacocks in the house of another.

— Mateo Alemán Guzmán de Alfarache (1599)

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Idleness is the open field of perdition, well tilled and sown with evil thoughts.

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An unsatisfactory agreement is less harmful than a successful lawsuit.

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