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In trying to be concise I become obscure. - [Proverbs] In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. - [Proverbs] Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase. - [Riches] It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves. - [Proverbs] It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way. - [Proverbs] It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth. - [Proverbs] It is not permitted that we should know everything. - [Proverbs] It is of no consequence of what parents any man is born, so that he be a man of merit. - [Ancestry] It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own proportion and standard. - [Proverbs] It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape. - [Proverbs] It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country. - [Patriotism] It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot. - [Proverbs] It will please though ten times repeated. - [Proverbs] Joking apart, now let us be serious. - [Proverbs] Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. - [Proverbs] Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling. - [Proverbs] Let Apella the Jew credit it, if he will. - [Proverbs] Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt. - [Proverbs] Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised. - [Proverbs] Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.] - [Proverbs] Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself. - [Character] Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. - [Authorship] Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it. - [Proverbs] Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. - [Proverbs] Luck cannot change birth. - [Luck] Displaying page 7 of 25 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
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