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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
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
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
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing 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
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst

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