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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Authorship Care Write
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Country House People
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

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