"Let the poor man mind his tongue"
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"It is ill to marry in the month of May."
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"So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone."
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"Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses."
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"What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death."
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"That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo."
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"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late."
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"Isn't the best defense always a good attack?"
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"Either attempt it not, or succeed."
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"Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise."
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"I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse."
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"Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise."
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"We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give."
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"Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm."
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"Love, and a cough, are not concealed."
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"The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head."
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"Pure women are only those who have not been asked."
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"That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory."
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"The gods have their own rules."
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"It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes."
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