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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
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
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile

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