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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman.
If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
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Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
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I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
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Iron hand in a velvet glove.
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I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.