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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.

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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.

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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.

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