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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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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
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
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom

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

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