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.

She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
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
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live

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