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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

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