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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
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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Owner Poor Thief
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve

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