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The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.

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Juvenal
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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Let him love none and be by none beloved!
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Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]
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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
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Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
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In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
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Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.
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Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
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No one every suddenly became depraved.
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The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
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