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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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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Death King Tower
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
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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