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One cannot know everything.

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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
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
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
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
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible

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