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The face that cannot smile is never fair.

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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
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
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner

The face that cannot smile is never fair.

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