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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
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
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
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Discarde Perceive Return
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy

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