If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
MARTIALWhat quick wit is found in sudden straits!
More Martial Quotes
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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