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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
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
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
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain

Those they praise, but they read the others.

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