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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.

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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
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
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
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
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings

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