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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Gift Mindset Woman
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Betray Care End Fake Trust
He will have true glory who despises it.
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Glory Hate Himself Willing
The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Blame Clever Man People Smart
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Forever Friendship Immortal Mortal
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Light Move Sea Wind
I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
LIVY

Advice Care Listening Man Myself Oneself Problem Thinking
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Fortune Herself Money Trust Wealth
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
LIVY

Democracy Freedom People Prison Taste
This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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Leaving War Weapon Word
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Blessing Evil Gratitude Man Recognition
That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Business Eyes People Prosperity
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Flower Imagination

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