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Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

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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
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Day Growth Old
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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Character Noble Promise Trust
A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.
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Defend Lying Partial Truth Worst
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
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Call Death Happiness Himself
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
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
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
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Action Seek Talk Yourself
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
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Empire Law Obedience People
Angels are winged with God’s power.
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Angel God Power Wings
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
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
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Learning Rule Submit
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
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Appreciation Friendship Himself Praise Public
Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.
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Catch Law Oneself Poor Spider Trap Weakness

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

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