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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
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
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
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness

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