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There is a middle ground in things.

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Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
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
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
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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
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
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy

There is a middle ground in things.

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