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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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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
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
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
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
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

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

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