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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.

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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
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
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
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
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself

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