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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.

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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
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
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
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 wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
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
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word

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