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Not a day without a line.

Pliny the Elder

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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Dare Heart Mood Nature One Liner Reveal Speak Truth Wine
When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Adversity Men Misfortune Nature Possible Privilege Sympathy
No one is wise at all times.
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Attempt Hope Life One Liner Patience Positive Task Time Try Wisdom Wise
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Believe Desire God Hope Lust Men Wish
Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Aware Command Example Life Positive Soft Success
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Affair Corporate Great Human Affair Individual Pay Respect Ridiculous
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner Spring
The only certainty is uncertainty
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Certain Decision Making Dream One Liner Uncertainty
The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Branch Desire Dragon Hard Work Hurls Nature Patience Poison Self Snake Tree
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Deep Easy Honor Motivation Obligation Important Strong
The happier the moment the shorter.
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Deep Happiness Happy Moment One Liner Short Tiem Family
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Believe Math Odd Power Solve Strong Trust
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Custom Goal Hands Life Manner Master Overcoming Practice Project Pursuit Teach Unique
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Birth Doe Expression Life Men Naked Nude
Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Death Goodness Human Life Short
Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Dream Faith Hope Men Success Work
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Country Democracy Fear Ignore Life One Liner Provoke War

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