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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

Martial

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
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
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
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
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
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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