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Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
Say nothing but good of the dead.
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Death Goodness One Liner
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
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Chastity Desire Grace Ourselves Peace Purity Soul
As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
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Growth Learning Myself Old
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
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Best Fortunate Happiness Himself Man
In all things that you do, consider the end.
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End Yourself
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Action Seek Talk Yourself
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
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Advantage Agreement Break
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Gold People Rich Sheep Wisdom
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
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
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
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Achievement Creation Excess
Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Angel God Power Wings
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

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