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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

Martial

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
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
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
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
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
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
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

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