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In trying to be concise I become obscure.

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The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

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Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

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What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born. [Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

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The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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Words challenge eternity.

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It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

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Anger is a momentary madness.

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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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Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

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The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

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Hatched in the same nest.

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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

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Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.

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I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

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What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

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The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

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Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

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