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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
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
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

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