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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.

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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend

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