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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
MARTIAL

Death Live Poet Praise Worth
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIAL

Envy Jealous Yourself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIAL

Believe Man Myself Please
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
MARTIAL

Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
MARTIAL

Love Myself
Wine and women bring misery.
MARTIAL

Alcohol Misery Wine
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
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
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

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