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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
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
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 wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs

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