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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake

Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

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