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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]
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Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.
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What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.
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Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand Better that they were not touched at all.
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