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Baltasar Gracian Quotes: Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
         

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.


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To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.



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