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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs

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