You are pretty—we know it; and young—it is true; and rich—who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, Fabulla, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young.
—Martial
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Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease, and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for another.
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