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Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.

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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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Speech Tears Time Weight
Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.
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Poetry Tears Weight Words Writing
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
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Birthday Dust Grains Youth
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Alcohol Nap Refresh Stimulation
First appearance deceives many.
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Appearance Business Deceive
Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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Complain Husband Love
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Appointment Patience Time
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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Deep Delicate Inspirational Produce Rose Sharp
Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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Cloak Enter Friendship Love Name One Liner
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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Ancient Born Praise Time
It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
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Count Man Poor
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
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Approve Desire Direction Follow Force Reason Strange Wrong
All things change; nothing perishes.
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Change One Liner Perish
Little things please little minds.
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Little Mind One Liner
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
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Blend Dignity Love Togetherness
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
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Death Delicate Ideas Kill Man Sneer Yawn

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