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Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

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Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man
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A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.
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Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.
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No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
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Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.
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Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.
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Preserve the mean the opportune moment is best in all things.
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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
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If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
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Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.
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The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
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Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.
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He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
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Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.
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You trust a thief when you trust a woman.
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Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.
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The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.
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