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Birds of a feather will flock together.

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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
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
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live

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