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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
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
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
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
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
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust

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