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Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
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Frame Interest Public Sale
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Commend Friendship Public
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
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Break Escape Law Small Spider
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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Government Law Obedience People Society
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Gold People Rich Sheep Wisdom
We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
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Angry Injury Justice
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
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Citizenship Ideal Injury State
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Attempt Goodness Nation Patriot Tolerance Try
I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Growth Learning Old
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
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Action Punishment Wrong

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

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