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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
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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
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
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
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
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men

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