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3,397 Famous Quotes by Unknown
“Never without a shilling in my purse.”
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“No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.”
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“No man is born without faults.”
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“Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.”
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“Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.”
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“Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.”
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“Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.”
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“Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.”
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“Nothing is achieved without toil.”
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“Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.”
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“Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.”
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“Opportune times for speaking.”
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“Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.”
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“Pleasure bought with pain does harm.”
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“Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.”
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“Punishment follows close on the heels of crime.”
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“Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.”
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“Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.”
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“Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.”
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“Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.”
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“Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.”
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“Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.”
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“Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.”
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“Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.”
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“Small things become the small.”
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