Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
MARTIALYou crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
More Martial Quotes
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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