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 A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
 [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]  
 A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
 [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.] 
Better your room than your company.
Better your room than your company.
 [Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company 
with whom you eat and drink, than to read more 
 [Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company 
with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
 [Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, 
quam quid edas et bibas.] 
 A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
 [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo read more 
 A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
 [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.] 
Two i's company, three i's trumpery.
Two i's company, three i's trumpery.
 It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
 [Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.]  
 It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
 [Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.] 
An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
 No blast of air or fire of sun
 Puts out the light whereby we run
  With girdled read more 
 No blast of air or fire of sun
 Puts out the light whereby we run
  With girdled loins our lamplit race,
   And each from each takes heart of grace
    And spirit till his turn be done. 
 It takes two for a kiss
 Only one for a sigh,
  Twain by twain we marry
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 It takes two for a kiss
 Only one for a sigh,
  Twain by twain we marry
   One by one we die.