"Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea?--how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea."

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"You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence."

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"Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,--nothing so expensive as glory."

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"Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed."

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"Think of your ancestors and your posterity."

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"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."

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"He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher."

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"They make solitude, which they call peace."

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"The gods looked with favour on superior courage."

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"Some might consider him as too fond of fame; for the desire of glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion."

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"He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did."

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"The images of twenty of the most illustrious families--the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour--were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre."

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"He [Tiberius] upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, "with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising.""

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"And though he promise to his loss, He makes his promise good."

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"The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust."

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"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."

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"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."

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"It is the duty of all persons, when affairs are the most prosperous, then in especial to reflect within themselves in what way they are to endure adversity."

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"Hence these tears."

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"I took to my heels as fast as I could."

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"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"

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"That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another.""

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"I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination."

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"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before."

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"As the saying is, I have got a wolf by the ears."

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"What comes from this quarter, set it down as so much gain."

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"Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain, lest life should sully this ecstasy with some disaster."

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"This is a wise maxim, "to take warning from others of what may be to your own advantage.""

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"That saying which I hear commonly repeated,--that time assuages sorrow."

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"I did not care one straw."

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"As many men, so many minds; every one his own way."

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"I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself."

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"Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it."

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"Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!"

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"How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!"

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"Rigorous law is often rigorous injustice."

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"I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper."

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"What now if the sky were to fall?"

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"According as the man is, so must you humour him."

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"It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms."

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"It is up with you; all is over; you are ruined."

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"The very flower of youth."

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"The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love."

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"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance."

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"It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests."

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"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."

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"Many a time, . . . from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."

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"If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything."

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"Take care and say this with presence of mind."

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"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking."

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