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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

Horace

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
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
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
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
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

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