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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
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
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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