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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

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Never without a shilling in my purse.

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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

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Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

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A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

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The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

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Busy idleness urges us on.

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Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

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He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

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No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.

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On day is pressed on by another.

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He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

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God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

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These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

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Small things become small folks.

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Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]

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