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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
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
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
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

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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