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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!

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Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
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
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick

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