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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

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