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Kindness will always attract kindness.

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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Food Myself Recommend
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth
Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Best Captain Opportunity
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Kindness One Liner
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Believe People Thinking Truth
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Expose Hide Reality Time
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Failure Goodness Himself Man Wisdom
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself

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